Five Reasons to Read John Gill

[JM]

A friend, knowing how much I have enjoyed and benefited from reading Gill, sent me this link:

Five Reasons to Read John Gill « Reformed Baptist Fellowship

The short of it:

1. He was Reformed.
2. He was Baptistic.
3. He was theological.
4. He was pastoral.
5. He was Christocentric.

 

[edie19]

my pastor organizes the reformed baptist fellowship site

 

[JM]

Cool. More "Reformed" Baptists should read Gill...it would help their sickly Calvinism.

 

[lesliedellow]

"He wrote against Deism, Liberalism, Catholicism, Pedobaptism, Anglicanism, Arminianism, and Antinomianism."

Was there anything he wasn't against?

 

[JM]

"He wrote against Deism, Liberalism, Catholicism, Pedobaptism, Anglicanism, Arminianism, and Antinomianism."

Was there anything he wasn't against?

It was a very difficult time for the church in England. He also wrote against a list of other false teachings that might be include as subheadings.



He was nicknamed Dr. Volumeous and he studied so often it became a saying, "as sure as John Gill is in his study" etc.