Revisiting John Gill's Doctrine of Eternal Justification

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Walden, Garrett M. [1 ,2 ]
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[1] Grace Heritage Church, Auburn, AL 36830 USA
[2] London Lyceum, Raleigh, NC 21776 USA
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10.1111/ijst.12668
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Richard Muller situated the English Baptist minister, John Gill (1697-1771), among the Reformed orthodox theologians. However, the Baptist tradition has often looked askance at Gill because of his debated association with hyper-Calvinism and one of its key pillars: eternal justification. Most historical scholarship has taken for granted that Gill affirmed eternal justification in such a way that renders him out of step with both the Reformed and evangelical traditions. In this essay, I revisit Gill's doctrine of justification and explain key distinctions which are often overlooked, but which are necessary to the coherence of his articulation of the doctrine - the distinctions between justification as an immanent act in God and as a transient act in the Christian, and justification qua esse actu and qua esse representativum. I argue that understanding these distinctions is needed for a more precise articulation of the doctrine of justification and that John Gill is an important interlocutor who passed forward an often-misunderstood perspective from his Reformed and Puritan forebears.
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