theological works and collections of sermons. It concludes with a few choice biographies, some significant histories, and various miscellaneous books dealing with philosophy and natural science. Isaac Watts (1674–1748) and Philip Doddridge are the authors most frequently cited. John Gill’s (1697–1771) classic defense of Calvinism, The Cause of God and Truth (1735–1738), and his exhaustive nine-volume exposition of the Old and New Testaments, which was published over a twenty-year span from 1746 to
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