{"id":26446,"date":"2026-01-05T06:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=26446"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:08:16","slug":"john-gill-by-george-ella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2026\/01\/john-gill-by-george-ella\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gill By George Ella"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speaks for itself. I no longer read many books and am very selective as to what I will read.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs. 10The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright words of truth. 11The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. 12And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.<\/p>\n

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:<\/p>\n

Fear God and keep His commandments,<\/p>\n

For this is man\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

14For God will bring every work into judgment,<\/p>\n

Including every secret thing,<\/p>\n

Whether good or evil.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 12:9-14<\/p>\n

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Speaks for itself. I no longer read many books and am very selective as to what I will read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs. 10The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright words of truth. 11The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. 12And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":25326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1854],"tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-26446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robert-gilmore","tag-baptist-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26450,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions\/26450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}