A Defence of Revelation, in Ten Letters to Thomas Paine

When Paine's Age of Reason appeared, the answer that reached many ordinary readers came not from an orthodox divine but from the Universalist Elhanan Winchester, then preaching in London. In ten letters he defends the Bible's inspiration and credibility against Paine's mockery — while conceding that the vindictive God Paine rejected deserved rejection, and offering in its place the God of universal restoration. The exchange shows early Universalism defining itself against deism on one side as firmly as against Calvinism on the other. British Library scan.

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