Marrow Man
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I noticed on a recent Facebook discussion some disagreement about whether John Gill was, in fact, a hypercalvinist. If I recall correctly, this point is made in Ian Murray's Spurgeon v. Hypercalvinism. The following was posted on the FB site:
So, what's the verdict on Gill, PBers?
Hyper-Calvinism formally took shape in 1707 at the time of John Hussey and his disciple, John Skepp. Skepp in turn... prompted the young, and soon to be well-known Dr. John Gill, down a road that would spawn one of Hyper-Calvinism’s “greater” works, The Cause of God and Truth. Though Hyper-Calvinism had appeared in the writing of Hussey and the preaching of Skepp, Gill’s work far surpassed them both in notoriety and volume. Gill’s Hyper-Calvinist work focused on dismantling the heresy of Arminianism, the opposite extreme on the theological spectrum. However, in doing so, Gill’s result was an unbridled Hyper-Calvinism.
So, what's the verdict on Gill, PBers?
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