1739 JEREMIAH WHITE. Rare Puritan Work, A Persuasive to Mutual Love and Charity Among Christians of Differing Views. Timely.

The precise history of the present work is unclear. It has long been attributed to Jeremiah White [1629-1707], a puritan of distinctive views who served as Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and after the restoration to Mrs. Cromwell.  He was a puritan in many ways, but also held the doctrine of ultimate reconciliation. He never conformed after the restoration, but continued to preach and publish. Many of his works were retained in manuscript until his death and some are no longer extant. The present work seems to have not been published during his lifetime, but Foulis located it and published it in light of the ongoing controversy regarding subscription to the Westminster Confession in the Scottish and Irish Presbyterian churches during the first half of the 18th century.  Apparently, also, there was resistance from the American Presbyterian churches, who felt that subscription to the Westminster Confession violated the doctrine of Sola Scriptura and perhaps the spirit of the Reformation an