Gilly, David, a Protestant divine who became a Eoman Catholic, was born at Nismes in 1648. He studied at Nismes, Montauban, and Saumur, and was appointed pastor at Bauge. His life tliei'c was quiet and studious until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when, to save himself from the dragonades, he abjured his faith, and allied himself with the Roman Catholics. The Protestants ordered public fasts to avert the wrath of God on account of this apostasy, but the king gave Gilly a pension of 1000 livres, which was increased bj" the clergj' 400 livres more. He was sent to Langue- doc by the court to preach against his old faith, and afterwards was brought to Paris to confirm the newlv- converted in their faith. He died at Angers Dec. 27, 1711. — Hoefer, Xonv. Bing. Generule, xx, 557.
Gilly, William Stephen, D.D, a pious and ex- emplarj- English clergyman, and patron of the Vaudois Christians. He was born in 1789, and educated at Cambridge, where he passed A.B. in 1812, A.M. in 1817, and D.D. in 1833. In 1817 he became rector of North Fambridge, Essex. In 1825 he became a canon of Durham and rector of St. Margaret's in that city. He died Sept. 10, 1855. In the year 18-23 Dr. Gilly paid his first visit to the Yaudois Christians, which has been attended with such important results, not onh' to himself, but likewise to that interesting jieo- ple, who for so m:in\' centuries have maintained their independence against all the power and persecution of papal Rome. The following year he pnl)lished a vol- ume entitled A Narrative of an Erciirsion to the Moun- tains of Piedmont in the Year 1823, and Researches among the Vavdois, or Waldenses, Protestant Inhahitanls of the Coltian Alps. This work immediately attracted great attention, and the interest it produced was shown by its reaching a fourth edition in less than three years. A fund of over £7000 was raised, and devoted, in part to the maintenance of a college and library at La Tour, in Piedmont. Dr. Gill}' ceased his labors on l>ehalf of the Vaudois only with his life. See Vaii- I10IS. Besides the work aliove-named, he pulilished The Spirit of the Gospel, or the four Evangelists elud- d'.itcd (I>ond. 1818, Svo) :■ — lloroi Catechelicce, or an Et- position of the Duty and A dnantages of public Catechis- ing in the Church (Loiul. 1828, Svo): — Widdensian lie- searches, n second Visit to the Waidois (Lond. 1831, Svo) : — A Memoir of Felix Neft\ Pastor if the High A Ips, and of his Labors among the French Protestants of Dau- ph'ne (Lond. 1832, Svo): — Our Protestant Forefathers (London, 1835, 12mo; twelve editions before 1844): — Vigilantius and his Times (London, 1844, Hyo). -^Gentle- man s Magaiine, Oct. 1855 ; Quart. Per. xxxiii, 134.
Gilmau, Samuel, D.D., an eminent Unitarian minister, was born in Gloucester. Mass., Feb. 16, 1791,
and graduated at Harvard College in 1811. From 1817 to 1819 he was connected with the university as tutor. In the year last named he accepted an invitation from the Unitarian church at Charleston, S. C.,^nd was soon afterwards ordained. He continued to serve that church with great popularity up to the year of his death, which took place Feb. 9, 185S. He was a fre- quent contributor to the North American Review, and his papers showed a wide range of scholarship, as well as great skill in execution. A number of his essaj'.":, etc., are collected in his Contributions to Literature (Bost. 1856, 12mo). See Monthly Religious Magazine (Bost. 1858); Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 674; New American Cyclopiaedia, viii, 25C.
Gi'loh (Heb. Giloh', >l'?5, exile [Gesenius] or cir- cle [Fiirst] ; Sept. in Josh. FtXw v. r. r?;X(ij/( and H,- Xojv, in Sam. F^Aoj v. r. FaiXw), the last named (after Goshen and Holon) in the first group of eleven cities in the south-western part (Keil, Josh. p. 384) of the hill-countrj' of the tribe of Judah (Josh, xv, 51); and afterwards the native place or residence of Ahithophel (hence called "the Gilonite" [q. v.], 2 Sam. xv, 12; xxiii, 34), whence Absalom, on his way from Jerusa- lem to Hebron, summoned him (perhaps from a tem- porary' banishment or disgrace at court) to join his rebellious standard (2 Sam. .xv, 12\ and whither lie re- turned to commit suicide on the failure of his colleagues to adopt his crafty counsel (2 Sam. xvii, 23). Jose- phus calls it Gelmon (ViXpMv, Ant. vii, 9, 8). De Saulcj' (^Dead Sea, i, 453) and Sclnvarz {Pahst. p. 105) both make it to be the modern Beit-Jal t, near Bethle- hem ; but this is rather the ancient Zelah or Zi Izah (q. v.), and the scriptural notices require a different position, perhaps at Rafat, a village with extensive ruins one hour twenty minutes south of Hebron (Van de Velde, 3femoir, p. 252).
Gi'lonite (Heb. with the art. hag-Gihmi', '^-'''t'^, Sept. (J TeKMi'uior, 2 Sam. xv, 12, or "^J'SSri, Sept. 6 FfAoji'iD/c, 2 Sam. xxiii, 34), an epithet of the traitor Ahithophel (q. v.), doubtless from his cit}' GiLOil (q. v.).
Gilpin, Bernard, called the apostle of the North, an eminent English reformer and itinerant preacher, was born at Kentmire, in A\'estmoreland, in 1517. At sixteen he was sent to tjueen's College, Oxford, where, stimulated by the works of Erasmus, he made the Scriptures in Hebrew and Greek his chief study. In 1541 he became M.A., and about the same time was elected fellow of his college, and ordained. His repu- tation for learning soon after led to his being solicited b}' cardinal AVolsey's agents to accept an establish- ment in his new foundation at Christ's Church, wliither he removed from Queen's College. 1 he university was divided between those who asserted the necessity of a reformation and those who resisted it. Giljiin was for some time opposed to the reformers, maintain- ing the Romish side in a dispute with Hooper, after- wards bishop of AA'orcester. But his mind was open to conversion, and in preparing himself for this dis- pute, he began to suspect that the peculiarities of Ro- manism were not supported by Scrijiture or by the fa- thers. This truth was still furtlun- forced upon him when, on tiie accession of Edward \\, Peter ]\Iartyr was sent to Oxford, and Bernard Gilpin was selected as one of the champions on the Romish side to oppose him. The result was that he embraced the Reforma- tion. In 1552 he was made vicar of Norton, and in the same year obtained from Edward VI a license as "general preach.er," which auth<irized him to jjreach in any diocese. He resigned his living soon after, and went to Louvain, where the priests sought in vain to reclaim him to Romanism. He returned to England in 1556, and found the Church oppressed and persecu- ted by queen INIary with blood and fire. His uncle, bishop Tonstall, gave him the living of Easingdon, and