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    William Twisse (1578 near Newbury, England – 20 July 1646) was a prominent English clergyman and theologian. He was named Prolocutor of the Westminster...
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  • Cambridge, where William Perkins and William Ames held to it, as well as Franciscus Gomarus in the Netherlands. Later, William Twisse wrote two comprehensive...
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    the nullification of these acts of the two parliaments. However, when William of Orange replaced the Catholic King James VII of Scotland and II of England...
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    1576–1633) James Temple Robert Titus Walter Travers Thomas Tregosse William Twisse John Udal Nicholas Upsall Richard Vines Thomas Vincent George Walker...
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    Parliament chose William Twisse, an internationally respected theologian, to be the Assembly's prolocutor or chairman. Due to Twisse's ill health, Cornelius...
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    Bartillat. ISBN 2-84100-086-9. Watkinson, William Lonsdale; Davison, William Theophilus, eds. (1875). "William Shaw and South Africa". The London Quarterly...
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    the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others. It was...
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    Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    of the Institutes. In that same year, Calvin was recruited by Frenchman William Farel to join the Reformation in Geneva, where he regularly preached sermons...
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    Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    published catechisms of James Ussher and John Ball, as well as the theology of William Perkins were also relied upon, however many of the similarities between...
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    Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    England in the 17th century, led by a radical travelling minister named William Gadsby, and took their name from the doctrine of particular redemption...
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    "against pleasure". In such usage, hedonism and puritanism are antonyms. William Shakespeare described the vain, pompous killjoy Malvolio in Twelfth Night...
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    standards in the first synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1571. In 1573, William the Silent joined the Calvinist Church. Calvinism was declared the official...
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  • Reformation" (PDF). Lmsusa.org. Retrieved 2015-08-13. Dyer, Ann; Kay, William (2011). European Pentecostalism. BRILL. p. 295-296. ISBN 9789004216365...
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    Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    of conscience of those who came to believe it did not fully do so (e.g. William Robertson Smith). Some Presbyterian Churches, such as the Free Church of...
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    until its dissolution. The Jerusalem Chamber is referenced in act IV of William Shakespeare’s play Henry IV, Part 2. "Jerusalem Chamber". Westminster Abbey...
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    Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    Colony and Plymouth Colony. Following Andros' deposition and arrest, he had William Phips appointed as Royal Governor and they returned to Massachusetts, arriving...
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    the Unknown Warrior. Due to the fame of the figures buried there, artist William Morris described the abbey as a "National Valhalla". Historians agree that...
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    definite time but not settled as a pastor) of a small Presbyterian church on William Street in New York City. The church invited him to remain, but he declined...
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  • International Churches of Christ Adventism originated from the work of William Miller, who preached the end of the world and the second coming of Christ...
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  • Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    ISBN 0-85151-668-8. Van Dixhorn, Chad Is the Larger Catechism Worthwhile? Hetherington, William History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines Westminster Larger Catechism...
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    Admiral Edward Popham, John Pym, Humphrey Salwey, William Strong, William Strode, and William Twisse, were all disinterred from there and reburied in an...
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    1515 in or near Haddington, the county town of East Lothian. His father, William Knox, was a merchant. All that is known of his mother is that her maiden...
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  • Calvin John Knox Zacharias Ursinus Theodore Beza William Perkins Franciscus Gomarus William Twisse Moses Amyraut Samuel Rutherford John Owen Francis...
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    Elizabeth Pawlett, daughter of Sir William Pawlett, of Edington, Wiltshire, past High Sheriff of Wiltshire and cousin of William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester...
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