William Twisse

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William Twisse (1578–1646) was a Calvinist theologian and the first moderator of the Westminster Assembly. A fierce defender of supralapsarianism and the doctrines of grace, he engaged in polemical exchanges with Arminius's followers and was one of the most rigorous scholastic Calvinist theologians of his era.

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Five Points of Calvinism1

The Five Points of Grace & of Predestination: Defined and Defended Against an Arminian Remonstrant
Consideration: When the Apostle saith that election is not of works, and proveth it by this: that before Esau and Jacob were born, &c., it was said of them the elder shall serve the younger; Let every sober Reader judge, whether it be not more agreeable to the Apostle, to profess, that election…