William Twisse

William Twisse (1578 – 20 July 1646) was a prominent English clergyman and theologian.

He was named prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly in an ordinance dated 12 June 1643,[1] putting him at the head of the churchmen of the Commonwealth.

He was described by a Scottish member, Robert Baillie, as "very good, beloved of all, and highlie esteemed; but merelie bookish.

[9] In his Vindiciae gratiae of 1632 he attacks Jacobus Arminius, and in Dissertatio de scientia media of 1639 he adopts certain Dominican arguments[6] on predestination.

[10] A premillennialist,[11] he wrote a preface to the 1643 English translation, Key of the Revelation, of Joseph Mede's influential Clavis Apocalyptica.