Justified Before You Believed? John Gill and Justification from Eternity
What the Reformers meant by justification, what John Gill added when he taught justification from eternity, and why the label Hyper-Calvinist does not quite fit him.
Baptist Seminarian
Essays and annotated readings for members of Reformed Baptist churches: the old writers in their own words, with notes enough to read them well.
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All postsThe London Confessions Draw a Line on Justification from Eternity
How the Particular Baptists' 1644 and 1689 London Confessions answered the charge of justification from eternity, and how chapter 3 of the 1689 Confession maps the means by which God saves his elect.
Following the Thread: Christ, Calling, and Justification in the 1689 Confession
Reading chapters 8, 10, and 11 of the 1689 Confession beside John Gill: how Christ's work reaches believers across time, why calling and justification are inseparable, and in what sense faith comes first.
Read the Old Guys
The seriesHaggai
The King James text of Haggai verse by verse, with short excerpts from four English commentators and the editor’s passage summaries, notes, and introductions.
- EAEnglish Annotations
- PPoole
- HHenry
- GGill
Philippians
The King James text of Philippians verse by verse, with short excerpts from four English commentators and the editor’s passage summaries, notes, and introductions.
- EAEnglish Annotations
- PPoole
- HHenry (W. Harris)
- GGill
Eleven older texts in full: four creeds, three confessions, three catechisms and a treatise. The Library