Union: or, a Treatise of the Consanguinity and Affinity between Christ and His Church

The seed from which American Universalism grew. James Relly, a Welsh evangelist who had preached alongside George Whitefield, here argues that believers are so completely united with Christ that his death was truly theirs — and that this union embraces all humanity, making final condemnation impossible. It was this book, and Relly's London preaching, that converted the young John Murray from Methodism to Universalism before he carried the message to America. The PDF is the 1812 New-York edition, printed for the Society of United Christian Friends — the Rellyan congregation in New York — and scanned by Google Books; the British Library microfilm item catalogued as the 1759 edition proved to contain a different work entirely and was replaced.

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