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Originally Posted by Mayflower 
Q. If you will bear with me, I have one more question. Do you believe that it is the duty of all men to love the Lord? It has been suggested recently that Hyper-Calvinists must answer the question negatively, whereas Calvinists are bound to say ´yes`.
A. Allow me to answer in words from Gill`s The Cause of God and Truth.
"Is it the duty of all men to love the Lord? Absolutely! Because they are the creatures of his making, enjoy the care of his providence, and are supplied by him with the blessings of life; therefore all men must joyfully love the Lord (p. 170)."
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Here Ella maintains that it is the duty of all to "love" God. Elsewhere however he
denies "duty-faith".
Some of the issue (in my mind) may be semantics, but I am not clear on this. Tom Nettles and David Engelsma suggest that the denial of duty-faith is the crux of hyper-Calvinism, yet Ella denies the Hyper charge not only against himself, but Gill.
