Thomas Gilbert: A Defense of the Supreme Dominion of God (1655)
Here is an English A.I. translation of Thomas Gilbert's response to John Owen's Dissertation on Divine Justice (1653). Parts of this were very difficult to render in a coherent manner no matter how many different ways I tried and I will likely update it in the future.
Virtually all of our information about Thomas Gilbert (1613-1694) comes from Edmund Calamy, who described him as “an ancient Divine; an excellent Scholar, of extraordinary Acuteness, and Conciseness of Style, and a most Scholastical Head. He had all the School-men at his Finger-ends” and that he “had a nice metaphysical head, and was the completest schoolman I ever was acquainted with.” Calamy's fullest comments on Gilbert can be read here: https://archive.org/details/historicalaccoun01cala/page/268/mode/2up?view=theater Gilbert wrote a short work responding to John Owen's Dissertation on Divine Justice, which he discussed with Calamy for only a short time as, in Calamy's words, "he could not apprehend that any thing he could add to it, would be able to satisfy. He desired, therefore, that he and I might have no farther discourse upon that subject."
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