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A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Rev. John Gill, D. D. is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Gill was an inspiration to his congregation and his fellow clergyman, and John Rippon presents a compelling biography of this influential preacher and theologian. He gives an account of Gill’s life as well as a summary of his considerable writings. Rippon also includes the elegy delivered at Gill’s funeral by Benjamin Francis.

were forced from him in self-vindication, which sufficiently discovered enough of the same temporary disposition, which he considered as so very censurable in Dr. Taylor’s Address. The truth seems to be, that, towards the termination of the dispute, both the good men, forgetting that disputants are to use soft words and hard arguments, employed intemperate language; which, it is very probable, each afterwards lamented. Mr. Gill, it is certain, possessed magnanimity enough to acknowledge, in a following
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