A superb sammelband of early imprints of tracts and sermons by John Gill, originally the property of Gill's first pastoral mentor, John Davis. Davis was also a Baptist divine, just a few years in Gill's elder. Both hailed from the hotbed Baptist community of Kettering. It was in Kettering that that Baptist Missionary Society would be formed as well [1792]. About 1716, Davis moved a mere six miles away to plant a new Baptist work at Higham Ferrers. In 1718, when Gill was in need of some hands-on experience to round out his pastoral training, he joined his old friend Davis as either an intern or associate. Gill remained for one year before becoming pastor at Goat Yard Chapel in Southwark, where he remained for 51 years. 

The individual works bound in the sammelband are all rather scarce, perhaps the work written to Baptists in America being the most unusual on the market. 

The contents, each originally published separately:

Gill, John. The Doctrine of the Trinity, Stated and Vindicated. Being the Substance of Several Discourses on that Important Subject; Reduc'd into the Form of a Treatise. By John Gill, D. D. London. Printed and Sold by F. Keith. 1752. 167pp.

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Gill, John D. D. The Doctrine of the Saints Final Perseverance, Asserted and Vindicated: In Answer to a Late Pamphlet, Called, Serious Thoughts, on that Subject.. By John Gill, D. D. London. Printed and Sold by F. Keith. 1752. 59pp.

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Gill, John D. D. Baptism a Divine Commandment to be Observed. Being a Sermon Preached at Barbican, Octob. 9, 1765. At the Baptism of the Reverend Mr. Robert Carmichael, Minister of the Gospel in Edinburgh. Published at Request. By John Gill, D. D. Second Edition. London. Printed and Sold by F. Keith. 1766. 31pp.

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Gill, John D. D. Infant-Baptism, a Part and Pillar of Popery: Being a Vindication of a Paragraph in a Preface to a Reply to Mr. Clarke's Defence of Infant-Baptism. To which is Added, a Postscript, Containing a Full and Sufficient Answer to Six Letters of Candidus, on the Subjects and Mode of Baptism, E'c. By John Gill, D. D. London. Printed and Sold by F. Keith. 1766. 41pp.

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Gill, John D. D. A Reply to a Defence of the Divine Right of Infant-Baptism, by Peter Clark, A. M. Minister at Salem, In a Letter to a Friend, at Boston in New-England. To Which are added, Some Strictures on a Late Treatise, Called, A Fair and Rational Vindication of the Right of Infants to the Ordinance of Baptism. Written by David Bostwick, A. M. Late Minister of the Presbyterian Church in the City of New-York. By John Gill, D. D. London. Printed and Sold by F. Keith. 1765. 112pp.

A good + copy, bound in original leather with later spine label replacement; worn as shown, but attractive. Generally solid, with light to moderate foxing. Multiple signatures of Davis throughout.