John Gill and Puritan Eschatology

Abstract

In evangelical scholarship, John Gill has recently gained prominence for his relationship to the ‘hyper-Calvinism’ that was developing throughout eighteenth-century English nonconformity. The attention which has been given to this aspect of his thought has, however, eclipsed a wider appreciation of his legacy. Standing between the radical baptists of the seventeenth century and the mainstream dissent of the Victorian age, Gill is shown to have a crucial place in the development of a native millenarian tradition.