File Name: John Gill Collection
File Submitter: Josh Bond
File Submitted: 22 Jun 2011
File Category: Collections
Author: John Gille-Sword Version: 9.x - 10.x
John Gill (1697–1771), Particular Baptist theologian and pastor, was a prolific writer and one of the most influential English Nonconformist leaders of the eighteenth century.
John Gill was the first Baptist to develop a complete systematic theology and also the first Baptist to write a verse-by-verse commentary on the entire Bible. An indefatigable scholar and writer, “Dr. Voluminous,” as he was affectionately called, published more than ten thousand pages during his lifetime, more than many ordinary mortals are able to read over a similar span. Undoubtedly the leading light among the Calvinistic Baptists of his day, Gill influenced an entire generation of younger ministers through his remarkable preaching and pastoral labors, which he discharged faithfully in the same congregation for nearly fifty-two years!
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