THE MODERN HISTORY OF UNIVERSALISM, FROM THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION то THE PRESENT TIME. BY THOMAS WHITTEMORE, BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 40, CORNHILL. 1830. C8218.30 ARVARD COLLEGE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 22d day of September, A. D. 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, THOMAS WHITTEMORE, of said District, has deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "The MODERN HISTORY OF UNIVERSALISM, from the Era of the Reformation to the present time. By Thomas Whittemore, pastor of the First Universalist Society in Cambridge, Mass." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned:" and also an act, entitled "an act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Mass Power Press, School Street. This work is a continuation of the History of Universalism from the date at which it was closed by the author of the Ancient History. I have attempted a connected account of this doctrine in reference only to England and the United States; for my first and fifth chapters will be found to consist merely of traces of that sentiment in different countries, as I have been able to discover them. I am very far from thinking that I have been so successful as to have obtained a knowledge of every case in which Universalism has been avowed or defended; and I |