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John Gill and the Charge of Hyper-Calvinism
John Gill and the Charge of Hyper-Calvinism
Though contemporary American works such as Thomas J. Nettle`s By His Grace and for His Glory and Timothy George`s essay on Gill in Baptist Theologians show clearly that Gill was no Hyper-Calvinist but a great Reformed 18th century defender of orthodoxy and Baptist apologist, he is being displayed in modern British evangelical circles as a Hyper-Calvinist heretic with not an ounce of evangelical acumen in him. Jack Hoad in his book, The Baptist, maintains that "Dr John Gill was the prince of the hypercalvinistic preachers ", calling those Hyper-Calvinists whom he believes adopt "a supralapsarian view that God`s decree of election preceded his decree to permit the Fall of man ." Hoad is convinced that it was Gill`s influence ´which was a major factor in the retention of a High Calvinist theology` in the Baptist churches.