A Collection of Sermons and Tracts, Vol. III
Overview
This final volume includes Gill’s sermons on the Trinity, the Resurrection, justification, the love of God, predestination, as well as essays on church guidance and planning. It also includes Gill’s famous work on the Trinity: The Doctrine of the Trinity Stated and Vindicated, as well as A Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel-Points, and Accents.
Top Highlights
“The truth of the matter, with respect to the Masoretes, is, that the pointing of the Bible was not their work; they considered it as of a divine original, and therefore dared not to make any alteration in it; but only observed, where there was an unusual punctuation, that it might be taken notice of; and that so they found it, and so they left it; and that those who came after them might not dare to attempt an alteration. Punctuation was made before their time, as their work itself shews; and Waltonu, an opposer of the antiquity of the points, has this observation; ‘The Masoretic notes about words irregularly pointed, and the numbers of them, necessarily suppose that pointing was made long before.” (Page 435)
“ The Mediatorship of Christ is not the foundation of his Sonship, but his Sonship is the foundation of his Mediatorship” (Page 78)
“If his resurrection from the dead is the ground of his Sonship, then his Sonship must be metaphorical, and not proper” (Page 76)
“‘To the law and to the testimony, if any speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Page 2)
“He could not be called on this account, God’s only begotten Son, which is the character he sometimes bears” (Page 76)
- Title: A Collection of Sermons and Tracts, Vol. III
- Author: John Gill
- Series: A Collection of Sermons and Tracts
- Volume: III
- Publisher: G. Keith
- Print Publication Date: 1778
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Theology; Sermons
- Resource ID: LLS:GILLSERMTRAC03
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:27:36Z
John Gill (1697–1771) was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire. He became a Baptist clergyman, a biblical scholar, and a staunch Calvinist. Gill was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen in 1748. Gill pastored at Benjamin Keach’s former church, New Park Street Chapel. Later, he pastored what would become Charles Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle for 51 years.
Gill is the first major Baptist theologian writer. His stance on Calvinism is somewhat a matter of debate. Some say Gill would not describe himself as hyper-Calvinist, while others contend that he indeed was.
Some of Gill’s most important academic works are The Doctrine of the Trinity Stated and Vindicated, The Cause of God and Truth, and A Body of Doctrinal Divinity, all of which appear in The Works of John Gill (19 vols.).