The Mystery Hid from Ages and Generations

Charles Chauncy, minister of Boston's First Church for sixty years and the leading clerical opponent of the Great Awakening, worked on this learned defense of universal salvation for decades before daring to publish it — and even then it appeared without his name. Through close argument from the New Testament, Chauncy contends that the salvation of all is 'the grand thing aimed at in the scheme of God.' Appearing before the Universalist denomination had organized, it showed that universalism had a foothold in the most respectable pulpits of New England Congregationalism.

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