John Gill (theologian)

John Gill (born at Kettering, Northamptonshire on November 23, 1697 and died October 14, 1771) was an English Baptist, Biblical scholar. He attended the Kettering grammar-school for a short time, became pastor at Higham Ferrers in 1718, and in 1719 entered upon a pastorate of fifty-two years of the Strict Baptist Church at Horsleydown , Southwark. The Strict Baptist Church became the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and Gill was succeeded by Charles Spurgeon, who pastored there for over 35 years.

In 1748 Gill received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Aberdeen. He was a profound scholar and a voluminous author. His most important works are:

• The Doctrine of the Trinity Stated and Vindicated (London, 1731)
• The Cause of God and Truth (4 parts, 1735-1738), a retort to Daniel Whitby 's Five Points
• An Exposition of the New Testament (3 vols., 1746-1748), which with his Exposition of the Old Testament (6 vols., 1748-1763) forms his magnum opus
• A Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language (1767)
• A Body of Doctrinal Divinity (1767)
• A Body of Practical Divinity (1770).

References

• J. Rippon (1838). Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of...John Gill.

External Links

• John Gill's Exposition of the Old and New Testaments - his magnum opus
• The John Gill Archive - containing most of Gill's published works, including many sermons and tracts, The Cause of God and Truth, A Body of Doctrinal Divinity, and A Body of Practical Divinity, and Solomon's Song.