John Gill
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Lessons from Life and Ministry
Lessons from Life and Ministry
Dropped formal education at the age of 11, but was known for always studying and being at the book store. One can learn through hard work and discipline.
Was measured in his disagreements with others and was able to maintain friendships with those whom he had disagreements
Embodied the the necessary function as pastor theologian
Pastored at the same church for more than 50 years
1709: Experienced coversion after hearing his pastor William Wallis, preach on
1716: At 19, made public profession of faith in Christ and was baptized by Thomas Wallis
1717:
Controversy
Controversy
Eternal Justification
1729: Persuaded the church to replace Benjamin Keach’s Confession: 19-20
Keach was in agreement with the Second London Baptist Confession. That faith in Christ was the instrument of justification. The second confession excludes eternal justification in chapter 11 paragraph four, when it writes, “God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justification; nevertheless, they are not justified personally, until the Holy Spirit does in due time actually apply Christ to them.”
One’s justification precede their belief in the gospel. That justification upon believing is not properly justification.
However, he still wasn’t an antinomian and believed the moral law was a rule for life for the believer
Calvinism
The Cause of God and Truth
The Modern Question
Was it man’s duty to believe the gospel? Ought Christians freely offer the gospel to all?
He seems to have moved in the direction of high or hyper calvinism, though he did believe in some exhortation, but rejected did reject the free offer. This doesn’t mean he was unconcerned with the conversion of the lost.
The Trinity and Incarnation
In Gill’s day subscription to creeds and confessions had come under suspicion, one reason for this is because many among general baptist and Presbyterians had begun adopting heretical views of the Trinity and the person of Christ, including unitarianism, arianism, and modalism. Many of these positions arose by the growing popularity of rationalism, and placing Scripture under the authority of human reason.
Gill responded to this trend by explaining and defending historic and orthodox position of the Trinity and both eternal Sonship of Christ and his deity.
A treatise on the Doctrine of the Trinity, defended the Trinity in general
A Dissertation Concerning the Eternal Sonship of Christ, defened the distinction between the first and second person of the Trinity, by demonstrating this was the historic postion. He produced a Scriptural Defense in his Body of Divinity
Dr. Haykin, of The Southern Baptist University stated in the class I took with him on Andrew Fuller that Gill is one of the main reasons that english particular baptist remained orthodox on the doctrine of the trinity.
Covenant Theology
Gill seems to have views of the Covenant similar to those found in the Westminster Confession of Faith.
However, he clearly believed in believers Baptism and defended it along with closed communion.
Resources
Resources
Commentaries on the Old and New Testaments, he is the first person to publish commentary on every verse in the Bible.
A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity
The Cause of God and Truth
A Treatise on the Doctrine of the Trinity
By His Grace and For His Glory by Tom Nettles
The Life and Thought of John Gill edited by Michael A.G. Haykin
Was measured in his disagreements with others and was able to maintain friendships with those whom he had disagreements