1752 JOHN GILL. Rare Sammelband of Baptist Tracts Owned by Gill's Friend and Mentor.

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.