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This book is a detailed study on the nature of the Church as found in the New Testament. It is also a defense of the antiquity of the Baptists, showing that it is ofneither Protestant nor Reformation era origin. Itcontains an analysis of those people and churches known as Anabaptists.
What is the doctrine of the covenant of redemption? Why does John Gill (1697–1771), an English Baptist pastor and theologian, regard this doctrine as the kernel in his systematic theology? This book explicates how core theological doctrines in the Bible, e.g., the doctrine of God the Trinity, Christology, and soteriology, are integrated in the doctrine of the covenant of redemption from the biblical and theological perspective of John Gill. From his long pastoral experience and over fifty years of rich writing, Gill demonstrates that a careful investigation of the Bible and of God the Trinity makes him love the reality of the covenant of redemption in eternity, which is ultimately revealed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. Gill sees those who are in the gospel of Jesus Christ as the ones through whom the eternal reality of the covenant of redemption is manifested to the saved. Gill also encourages those who are in Christ to see the eternal reality of the covenant of redemption revealed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Author's preface / Harry Leon McBeth -- Foreword / William M. Pinson, Jr. -- Editorial introduction / Jerry F. Dawson -- List of abbreviations -- Changing flags over Texas -- Baptist beginnings in Texas, 1820-1840 -- Emerging Baptist structures, 1840-1848 -- Progress amidst problems, 1848-1868 -- Divided we stand, 1868-1886 -- Search for unity, 1886-1900 -- Into a new century, 1900-1914 -- Good times and bad, 1914-1929 -- Depression and deliverance, 1929-1945 -- Ready to go forward, 1945-1953 -- New directions, 1953-1960 -- Onward and (sometimes) upward, 1960-1973 -- Focus on Texas, 1974-1982 -- Continuity amidst change, 1982-1998 -- Change amidst continuity, 1982-1998 -- Endnotes -- Bibliographic essay -- A statistical epilogue: -- Historical tables of Texas General bodies -- Texas Baptist statistical summary by associations -- Trends in the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1960 to 1997.