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Hercules Collins (1647-1702), was an English Baptist minister, author of a revision of the Heidelberg Catechism called the Orthodox Catechism.
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Hercules Collins (1647-1702), was an English Baptist minister, author of a revision of the Heidelberg Catechism called the Orthodox Catechism.
Collins had little education, but was religious at an early age. He appears to have officiated to a congregation at Wapping, and at one period he was imprisoned in Newgate Prison. He died on 4 October 1702, and his funeral sermon, by the Rev. John Piggott, was printed in the following year.
His published material begins with An Orthodox Catechism (1680), an edited version of the 16th century Heidelberg Catechism. Collins revised the section on baptism, as well as making a number of stylistic changes; he also added the text of the Nicene Creed and Athanasian Creed. In the appendix Collins argues for the biblical duty of congregational singing.[ citation needed ]
Over the next twenty-two years Collins produced eleven more works, mainly on issues of separation from the Church of England, and believer's baptism versus infant baptism. Other works come from his time in Newgate Prison during 1684. One of these was Counsel for the Living Occasioned from the Dead and was written on the death of two of his fellow prisoners; it contains pastoral instruction to those who were likewise experiencing persecution. The other, A Voice from Prison, was alternatively titled: Meditations on Revelation 3:11 Tending to the Establishment of God’s Little Flock, in An Hour of Temptation.[ citation needed ]
A final work was The Temple Repair'd. It includes instruction on preparing and preaching sermons for those in the ministry.[ citation needed ]
Besides some single sermons, he wrote the following works, some of which occasioned a good deal of controversy:
His collected Works are presently being edited by Mark Smith and Reagan Marsh for Hesed & Emet Publishers (H&E) under the oversight of Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin. Marsh is also writing a postgraduate thesis on Collins's pastoral theology under Dr. Thomas J. Nettles.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Collins, Hercules". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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