Introduction

Biography

Gibbons was edu­cat­ed by a Dr. Tay­lor at Dept­ford.

Ordained in 1742, he served as as­sist­ant to Rev­er­end Tho­mas Bures at the Sil­ver Street Cha­pel, Lon­don. In 1743, he suc­ceed­ed Ro­bert Wright as min­is­ter of the In­de­pen­dent Church at Hab­er­dash­ers’ Hall, where he stayed un­til his death.

In ad­di­tion to his min­is­te­ri­al of­fice, he be­came, in 1754, tu­tor of the Dis­sent­ing Aca­de­my at Mile End in Lon­don; and in 1759, Sun­day ev­en­ing lec­tur­er at Monk­well Street. In 1760, the College of New Jer­sey gave him an MA degree; in 1764, the Col­lege of Ab­er­deen award­ed him a Doc­tor of Di­vi­ni­ty de­gree.

Works

• Calvinism and Non­con­for­mi­ty De­fend­ed, 1740
• Juvenilia; Po­ems on Va­ri­ous Sub­jects of De­vo­tion and Vir­tue, 1750
• Sermons on Va­ri­ous Sub­jects, 1762; in­cluded 15 hymns, one for each ser­mon
• Rhetoric, 1767
• Hymns Adapt­ed to Di­vine Wor­ship in Two Books, 1769 & 1784
• The Chris­tian Min­is­ter in Three Po­et­ic­al Epis­tles to Phi­lan­der, 1772
• An Eng­lish Ver­sion of the La­tin Epi­taphs on the Non­con­for­mist’s Me­mo­ri­al, 1775
• Female Wor­thies, 2 vol­umes, 1777
• Memoirs of the Rev. Is­aac Watts, D.D., 1780
• Select Por­tions of Scrip­ture, and Re­mark­able Oc­cur­renc­es, 1781