the works of john gill vol2 SAMPLE

The Cause of God and Truth
remembered for his contributions to and defense of English Reformed
orthodoxy.
Regarding Gill’s theological commitments, Muller observes that Gill
“stands in the trajectory of the older Reformed orthodoxy … [and]
remains one of the most significant representatives of so-called precritical
exegesis in eighteenth-century Britain.” 7 Elsewhere, Muller
suggests that a “brief survey of Gill’s sources indicates that, after the
Bible, the main positive points of reference for Gill’s theology were
the great Reformed and Puritan writers of the seventeenth century.” 8
In Muller’s words, this locates Gill “in relation to the Reformed
dogmatic tradition, specifically, the tradition of Puritanism and its
continental analogue, post-Reformation Reformed orthodoxy.” 9
Furthermore, it evidences that “without in any way diminishing Gills
commitment to the distinctive teachings of the Baptist churches, it
identifies the larger number of his theological antecedents as thinkers
not belonging to the Baptist tradition: Gill was not, in other words,
and insular thinker, but he was clearly selective.” 10
Perhaps Gill’s unwavering commitment to Biblical and Reformed
truth could be best communicated by sharing an actual account related
to his work entitled The Cause of God and Truth. 11 Since its original
publication in 1738, it stands unmatched as the surest defense of the
doctrines of grace.
C. H. Spurgeon records, “My eminent predecessor, Dr. [John] Gill,
was told, by a certain member of his congregation who ought to have
known better, that if he published his book, The Cause of God and
Truth, he would lose some of his best friends, and that his income
7 Richard A. Muller, “Review of The Collected Writings of John Gill by John Gill.” Calvin
Theological Journal 38.2 (2003), 380.
8 Richard A. Muller, “John Gill and the Reformed Tradition: A Study in the
Reception of Protestant Orthodoxy in the Eighteenth Century,” in The Life and
Thought of John Gill (1697-1771): A Tercentennial Appreciation, edited by Michael Haykin
(Leiden: Brill, 1997), 55.
9 Muller, “John Gill and the Reformed Tradition,” 55.
10 Muller, “John Gill and the Reformed Tradition,” 55.
11
John Gill, The Cause of God and Truth in Four Parts, Reprint ed., edited by D. W.
Barger (Knightstown, IN: Particular Baptist Heritage Books, 2022).
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