Hercules Collins

Hercules Collins served as the pastor of the Particular Baptist congregation at Wapping, London, through years of persecution under the Clarendon Code and into the period of greater toleration after 1689. In 1680 he published An Orthodox Catechism, which adapted the Heidelberg Catechism for Particular Baptist use — a significant act of confessional appropriation that placed English Baptists within the wider Reformed catechetical tradition. Collins signed the Second London Confession in 1689 and remained an active figure in early associational life until his death.