Jeremiah White

Jeremiah White (1629-1707) was an English Puritan minister who served as domestic chaplain to Oliver Cromwell and as preacher to the Council of State during the Commonwealth. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he remained a Nonconformist after the Restoration, declining to conform to the Church of England and preaching occasionally to an independent congregation in London. Having embraced the doctrine of the restitution of all things as a young man, he wrote a defense of universal salvation, The Restoration of All Things, published posthumously in 1712, which became an influential text for later Universalists.

The original posthumous printing of Jeremiah White's vindication of the goodness and grace of God — the manuscript the sometime chaplain to Oliver Cromwell left unpublished at his death in 1707, issued at London five years later. This is the edition that carried seventeenth-century Puritan universalism into the eighteenth century, where it was read by the circles that produced Stonehouse, Relly, and Winchester; the collection also holds the 1779 second edition. The scan is from the British Library's copy.

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Universalism from inside seventeenth-century Puritanism. Jeremiah White had been a chaplain to Oliver Cromwell; his vindication of 'the goodness and grace of God to be manifested at last in the recovery of his whole creation out of their fall' circulated in manuscript and was published after his death. Its republication in 1779 fed the English universalist revival of Relly's and Winchester's generation, and it gave the movement a pedigree reaching back to the Commonwealth.

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