Synopsis
Gill's Complete Body Of Practical And Doctrinal Divinity:: Being A System Of Evangelical Truths, Deduced From The Sacred Scriptures by John Gill. This 19th-century abridgment offers a systematic, Scripture-grounded overview of evangelical doctrine, aiming to equip ministers and lay readers with a clear, defendable framework for faith and practice. The work foregrounds a robust eschatology—exploring the soul’s immortality, the intermediate state, the resurrection, Christ’s second coming, the millennium, and the final judgment with eternal destinies for the righteous and the wicked—before transitioning to practical religion and worship. It then moves into Book I: Worship of God, detailing the object and exclusivity of worship, the development of internal godliness, and a program of knowledge, repentance, faith, hope, love, and virtue. Across sections on the nature and acts of God, the doctrine of the Trinity, and covenant theology, the text grounds ecclesiology and corporate worship in Scripture, while emphasizing a local, covenantal church polity, church discipline, ordinances, public ministry, singing, and applicable private and social ethics. The tone is highly systematic and polemical, seeking reverence, obedience, and confidence in future glories rooted in Scripture.
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