The Wider Hope: Universalists Beyond the Denomination

The Everlasting Gospel

The everlasting gospel, commanded to be preached by Jesus Christ, judge of the living and the dead, unto all creatures, Mark xvi. 15. : Concerning the eternal redemption found out by him, whereby devil, sin, hell and death, shall at last be abolished, and the whole creation restored to its primitive purity; being a testimony against the present anti-Christian world.

The book that carried German pietist universalism to America. 'Paul Siegvolck' was the pseudonym of Georg Klein-Nicolai, whose treatise on the finally universal reach of redemption circulated among the radical pietists of the Rhineland; translated into English and printed at Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1753, it spread among the German Baptists and their neighbors decades before John Murray landed. Elhanan Winchester credited it with helping convince him of the universal restoration — making this modest volume a common ancestor of much American universalism.

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