TWISSE. 17 refined barbarity and contemptible meanness of these pro- ceedings, might have been expected amongst untutored savages, rather than from a monarch bred up in all the refinements of the English court. Though Dr. Twisse died in necessitous circumstances, the parliament, after his death, voted a thousand pounds to be given to his children, out of the public treasury;* but, on account of the national confusions, it is doubtful whether it was ever paid. Mr. Clark says, " he was much admired for his great learning, subtle wit, exact judgment, great integrity, pleasing behaviour, and his exemplary modesty, piety, humility and self-denial."+ Fuller denominates him, a divine of great abilities, learning, piety, and moderation.t Wood says, his plain preaching was esteemed good; his solid disputations were accounted better; but his pious life was reckoned best of all." The most learned of his adver- saries confessed that there was nothing extant more accurate and full upon the Arminian controversy, than what is con- tained in his works. All writers against Arminianism have made honourable mention of his works, and have acknow- ledged him to have been the mightiest man in those contro- versies that the age produced.§ He was succeeded at New- bury by Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, who was afterwards ejected in 1662.il His WORKS.-1. A Discovery of Dr. Jackson's Vanities, 1631.- 2. Vindicise Potestatis et Providentiw Dei, 1632. -3. Dis- sertatioScientia Media tribus libris absoluta, 1639.-4. Dissertiones, 1639.-5. Of the Morality of the Fourth Commandment, 1641.- 6.A Treatiseof Reprobation, in Answer to Mr. John Cotton, 1646. -- 7. Animadvertiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Frank. Junk, et Joh. Arnold Corvin, 1649.-8. De Predestinatione et Gratis, 1649.- 9. The Doubting Conscience Resolved, 1652.-10. The Riches of God's Love unto the Vessels of Mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath, 1653.-11. Two Tracts in Answer to Dr. H. (Hammond) 1653.-12. The Synod of Dort and Ares reduced to Practice, with an Answer.-13. The Scriptures Sufficiency to determine all matters of Faith.-14. The Christian Sabbath defended against the crying Evil of these Times of the Antisabbatarians of our Age.-15. Fifteen Letters, published in Mede's Works.-He also left numerous manuscripts behind him. Whitlocke'sMem. p. 121. t Clark's Lives, p. 13, 14, 18. Fuller's Worthies, part i. p. 96. § Wood's Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 40, 41. fl Palmer's Noncon. Mem. vol. i. p. 290. VOL. In
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