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6.21.2005

The Cause of God and Truth

This book is by John Gill, who lived in the 1700s in England, and was sort of a Bunyan-like Calvinist in that he was Calvinist and Baptist, i.e. didn't practice infant baptism and wasn't a sacramentalist (basically knew it is the Word and the Spirit that regenerates and not ritual or clerics or churches, though how much Gill would agree with my way of putting it is doubtful, but basically that is what baptists are compared to Presbyterians or Anglicans and other more high church, sacramentalist types and denominations). This book - The Cause of God and Truth - is unique in that it not only gives impressions of being a rock foundation of the world type of book, but it is structured around particular verses of the Bible and goes into other areas the usual Calvinist works of its kind don't necessarily go into. Gill wrote mammoth works in his life: a complete commentary on the Bible John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible; a systematic theology in two parts, A Body of Doctrinal Divinity and A Body of Practical Divinity; a massive commentary on the Song of Solomon; and, again, the book I'm talking about The Cause of God and Truth; and numerous sermons and misc. works.