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theWord Books by John Gill

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John Gill – (1697 – 1771), English Baptist, Biblical scholar, staunch Calvinist
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John Gill was born November 23, 1697 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. In his youth, he attended Kettering Grammar School, mastering the Latin classics and learning Greek by age eleven. The young scholar continued self-study in everything from logic to Hebrew. His love for Hebrew would follow Gill throughout his life.

At the age of about twelve, Gill heard a sermon from his pastor, William Wallis, on the text, “And the Lord called unto Adam, and said unto him, where art thou?” (Genesis 3:9). The message stayed with Gill and eventually led to his conversion. It was not until seven years later that young John made a public profession, when he was almost nineteen years of age.

His first pastoral work was as an intern assisting John Davis at Higham Ferrers in 1718 at age twenty-one. He was subsequently called to pastor the Strict Baptist church at Goat Yard Chapel, Horsleydown, Southwark in 1719. In 1757, his congregation needed larger premises and moved to a Carter Lane, St. Olave’s Street, Southwark. His pastorate lasted 51 years. This Baptist Church would later become the Metropolitan Tabernacle pastored by Charles Spurgeon. During Gill’s ministry the church strongly supported the preaching of George Whitefield at nearby Kennington Common.

In 1748, Gill was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of Aberdeen. He was a profound scholar and a prolific author. His most important works are:

  • The Doctrine of the Trinity Stated and Vindicated ( London, 1731)
  • The Cause of God and Truth (4 parts, 1735–8), a retort to Daniel Whitby’s Five Points
  • An Exposition of the New Testament (3 vols., 1746–8), which with his Exposition of the Old Testament (6 vols., 1748–63) forms his magnum opus
  • A Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Hebrew Languages (1767)
  • A Body of Doctrinal Divinity (1767)
  • A Body of Practical Divinity (1770).

bio from www.ccel.org

Works include in this module include:

The Doctrine of the Trinity Stated and Vindicated ( London, 1731)
The Cause of God and Truth (4 parts, 1735–8), a retort to Daniel Whitby’s Five Points
A Body of Doctrinal Divinity (1767)
A Body of Practical Divinity (1770).
Baptism, A Profession of the Faith of the Gospel (wlue777).top.twm
God and God’s Sovereignty (wlue777).top.twm
God’s Everlasting Covenant.top.twm
God’s Law (wlue777).top.twm
God’s Love (wlue777).top.twm
God’s Word-The Scriptures.top.twm
Man’s Fall and Depravity (wlue777).top.twm
Messiah.top.twm
Prayer (wlue777).top.twm
Summary of the Life, Writings, &c. of Dr. Gill (wlue777).top.twm
The Christian’s Death, Resurrection and Final State in Heaven (wlue777).top.twm
The Divine Right of Infant-Baptism, Examined and Disproved. (wlue777).top.twm
The Gospel Minister (wlue777).top.twm
The Lord Jesus Christ.top.twm
The New Testamant Church and Public Worship (wlue777).top.twm

Works of John Gill

 

theWord Books by Thomas Boston

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Thomas Boston

Thomas Boston (1676–1732) was a Scottish clergyman. He was born at Duns. His father, John Boston, and his mother, Alison Trotter, were both Covenanters. He was educated at Edinburgh, and licensed in 1697 by the presbytery of Chirnside. In 1699 he became minister of the small parish of Simprin, where there were only 90 examinable persons; previously, he was a schoolmaster in Glencairn. In 1704 he found, while visiting a member of his flock, a book brought into Scotland by a commonwealth soldier. This was the famous Marrow of Modern Divinity, by Edward Fisher, a compendium of the opinions of leading Reformation divines on the doctrine of grace and the offer of the Gospel, which set off the Marrow Controversy.
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theWord Books by Horatius Bonar

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Horatius Bonar Page

On this page we host the works of Horatius Bonar in theWord format.

 

He was the son of James Bonar (1758-1821), Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, and his wife Marjory Pyott Maitland.[1] The family lived in the Broughton district of Edinburgh.[2] He was educated in Edinburgh.

He came from a long line of ministers who served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland. One of eleven children, his brothers John James and Andrew Alexander were also ministers of the Free Church of Scotland He married Jane Catherine Lundie in 1843 and five of their young children died in succession. Towards the end of their lives, one of their surviving daughters was left a widow with five small children and she returned to live with her parents.

In 1853, Bonar received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Aberdeen.

He died at this home, 10 Palmerston Road[3] in the Grange, 31 July 1889. They are buried together in the Canongate Kirkyard in the lair of Alexander Bonar (and his parents), near the bottom of the eastern extension.

 

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theWord Books by R.A. Torrey

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R. A. Torrey – American Congregationalist evangelist
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Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928), American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer.
Torrey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on January 28, 1856. He graduated from Yale University in 1875 and Yale divinity School in 1878. Following graduation, Torrey became a Congregational minister in Garrettsville, Ohio in 1878, marrying Clara Smith there in October 1879. From 1881 to 1893, the Torreys had five children.

After further studies of theology at Leipzig University and Erlangen University in 1882-1883, Torrey joined Dwight L. Moody in his evangelistic work in Chicago in 1889, and became superintendent of the Bible Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (now Moody Bible Institute). Five years later, he became pastor of the Chicago Avenue Church (now The Moody Church) in 1894.

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theWord Books by Charles Spurgeon

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theWord Books by Charles Spurgeon

C. H. Spurgeon – Baptist preacher

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The descendant of several generations of Independent ministers, he was born at Kelvedon, Essex, and became a Baptist in 1850. In the same year he preached his first sermon, and in 1852 he was appointed pastor of the Baptist congregation at Waterbeach. In 1854, he went to Southwark, where his sermons drew such crowds that a new church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Causeway, had to be built for him. Apart from his preaching activities he founded a pastors’ college, an orphanage, and a colportage association for the propagation of uplifting literature. Spurgeon was a strong Calvinist. He had a controversy in 1864 with the Evangelical party of the Church of England for remaining in a Church that taught Baptismal Regeneration, and also estranged considerable sections of his own community by rigid opposition to the more liberal methods of Biblical exegesis. These differences led to a rupture with the Baptist Union in 1887. He owed his fame as a preacher to his great oratorical gifts, humor, and shrewd common sense, which showed itself especially in his treatment of contemporary problems. Among his works are The Saint and his Saviour (1857), Commenting and Commentaries (1876) and numerous volumes of sermons (translated into many languages).

—The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

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theWord Books by John MacDuff

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theWord Books by John MacDuff

Macduff, John Ross, D.D., second son of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, near Perth, was born at Bonhard, May 23, 1818. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he became in 1842 parish minister of Kettins, Forfarshire, in 1849 of St. Madoes, Perthshire, and in 1855 of Sandyford, Glasgow. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1862, and about the same time also from the University of New York. He retired from pastoral work in 1871, lived at Chislehurst, Kent and died in 1887. He has published many practical and devotional works which have attained a wide circulation. In 1857 he was appointed by the General Assembly a member of their Hymnal Committee. His 31 hymns appeared in his Altar Stones, 1853, and were also included with his later poems in his The Gates of Praise, 1876. Among hymns that he wrote included ‘Abide with me, thou gracious guide’ – bio from http://www.hymnary.o…son/MacDuff_JR1

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