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  James Relly Information
James Relly was a Methodist minister and mentor of John Murray who spread Universalism in the United States.
Relly was born at Jeffreston (seventy miles west north west of Cardiff), Pembrokeshire, Wales, about 1722; died in London, England on April 25, 1778.
He attended the Pembroke grammar-school, came under the influence of George Whitefield, probably in the latter's first tour of Wales in 1741, and became one of his preachers.
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  James Relly
James Relly (1722-1778) was, as a young British minister, one a sizable group of Methodist preachers, including George Whitefield and John Wesley, whose itinerant preaching initiated a sweeping revival in large parts of Great Britain during the mid-18th century.
James Relly was born in the Saundersfoot neighbourhood of 'Little England', an English-speaking area of Pembrokeshire in south west Wales.
James Relly always denied that by enlarging the extent of the atoning grace of Christ's death, he had become a universalist.
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 James Relly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
James Relly was a Universalist minister and mentor of John Murray who spread Universalism in the United States.
Relly was born at Jeffreston (seventy miles west north west of Cardiff), Pembrokeshire, Wales, about 1722; died in London, England on April 25, 1778.
He attended the Pembroke grammar-school, came under the influence of George Whitefield, probably in the latter's first tour of Wales in 1741, and became one of his preachers.
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 UU Faithworks: Curriculum and Learning Resources, Winter/Spring 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Relly suggested that there was really a very positive reason why God allowed his son Jesus to suffer the terrible death on the cross.
Relly speak, and it did not take long for John to find himself confronted by a committee of his old friends, who demanded that if he insisted on further contact with the heretic, he must at least keep silent about any of those Universalist ideas.
He confided to James Relly that his heart’s desire was to disappear into such a wilderness where he was unknown, as if he had never before existed.
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 A SHORT HISTORY OF METHODISM.
James Hervey was permitted to meet with them; and in 1735, Mr.
Yea, they love the Antinomians themselves; but it is with a love of compassion only: For they hate their doctrines with a perfect hatred; they abhor them as they do hell fire; being convinced nothing can so effectually destroy all faith, all holiness, and all good works.
Relly and his adherents, it would not be strange if they should grow into reputation.
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 Religious Movements Homepage: Unitarian Universalists Association
The Unitarian faith stemmed from the teachings of Michael Servetus and the Universalists from James Relly in England.
While reviewing papers counteracting the teaching of James Relly, however, Murray became intrigued and began a further study of the matter of universal salvation.
Relly was quite a controversial preacher, but had his own congregation, which Murray soon began visiting.
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 Jefferson Unitarian Church: Sermon
Rellys Universalism that Murray would eventually bring to the American colonies with little if any alterations was that all of humanity experienced a mystical union with Christ.
Now, both Murray and Relly still believed in the concept of Original Sin and the ultimate depravity of humanity but they believed that ALL would be restored from their fallen nature.
He may have heard of Rellys teachings but we know that he was particularly influenced by Ethan Allen of Revolutionary War fame who had written a treatise called Reason, the Only Oracle of Man in which he put forth the Deist position of relying on human reason as the source of inspiration.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Murray,
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 James Relly -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
James Relly -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
He attended the Pembroke grammar-school, came under the influence of (Click link for more info and facts about George Whitefield) George Whitefield, probably in the latter's first tour of Wales in 1741, and became one of his preachers.
One of his converts in 1770 was (Click link for more info and facts about John Murray) John Murray, the founder of Universalist churches in America.
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 Descendants of George Huntress - Person Page 30   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She was the daughter of James Relly Goff and Harriet Frances Ross.
     James H. Huntress was born at Vermont circa 1840.
James H. Huntress was a farmer at Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co, New York, in 1880.
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 UniversalistChurch.net · Universalist Faith
It was now that all London became aroused by the doctrines of James Relly, a conscientious and zealous preacher of the doctrine of Universal Redemption.
Murray's marriage, the congregation of the Tabernacle were shocked to hear that one of their most devout and charming young women had become "ensnared" by Relly's teachings.
Relly's, but believed he taught the truth, there was an outburst of indignation and his trial followed.
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 John Murray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The influence of John Wesley relieved that fear in some respects, but once the pattern of his progress away from the harsher elements of Calvinism had begun, it would not stop short of the total rejection of everlasting punishment.
The key to Murray's development was his reading of James Relly's Union (1759) and his subsequent listening to his preaching.
Relly argued that all humanity actually achieved union with Christ in his death and therefore had already paid the price for sin.
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 UU Short History Continued
In 1759 in England, James Relly published "Union," which denied the Calvinistic doctrine of salvation for the few and claimed that all would be saved.
John Murray, a follower of Relly, helped deliver the Universalist movement safely to the shores of America.
In 1779 Murray occupied the pulpit of the Independent Christian Church of Gloucester, Massachusetts, which was the first organized Universalist church in America.
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 James Relly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Relly was born at Jeffreston (seventy miles west north west of Cardiff), Pembrokeshire, Wales, about 1722;died in London, England on April 25, 1778.
He attended the Pembrokegrammar-school, came under the influence of GeorgeWhitefield, probably in the latter's first tour of Wales in 1741, and became one of hispreachers.
They inculcate and maintain good works fornecessary purposes; but contend that the principal and only works which ought to be attended to, is the doing real good withoutreligious ostentation; that to relieve the miseries and distresses of mankind according to our ability, is doing more real goodthan the superstitious observance of religious ceremonies.
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 John Murray
He returned to England in 1760, adopted the doctrines of Universalism as taught by James Relly, and was excommunicated at Whitefield's tabernacle in London.
At Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he settled in the latter part of 1774, he was suspected of being a disguised spy of the British government, and a vote was passed by the town authorities ordering him to leave, but by the exertions of his friends he was permitted to remain and to preach.
He was chaplain to the Rhode Island brigade that was encamped before Boston in 1775, and was on intimate terms with several of its officers, including Nathanael Greene and James Varnum, who united in petitioning Washington to permit him to remain in that capacity, when the rest of the chaplains urged his removal.
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 Historical Background of Universalism Doctrine and Growth
In Scotland Rev. James Purves wrote in defense of the doctrine, and established a Universalist society about 1770; Rev. Neil Douglass founded another about 1800; and within twenty-five years four or five others were started, largely through the instrumentality of Mr.
In 1750 James Relly, who had been a preacher in Whitefield's connection, shocked at the doctrine of reprobation, was by meditation and study led into another scheme of redemption, some of the peculiarities of which may be said to have had their origin with him.
Accordingly Christ, in his corporate capacity, was truly guilty of the offence of the 'human race, and could be, as he actually was, justly punished for it; and the race, because of this' union, really suffered in him all the penalty which he endured, and thus fully satisfied justice.
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English Unitarians, moreover, were greatly influenced by James Martineau (1805-1900), who, after studies in Germany, was led to a religious epistemology emphasizing intuition.
In the 1930s a critical movement emerged, largely in response to a general crisis of faith in liberal thought; its leader was James Luther Adams, whose writings contributed significantly to Unitarian theology and social thought.
Christ's unity with all human beings and his acceptance of the guilt and endurance of the punishment for the sins of mankind ensured that among the elect for whom Christ had suffered was the entire human race.
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 Universalism
It was not, however, until a century later, when James Relly broke with the Wesley - Whitefield revival, that an organized universalist movement appeared.
One of Relly's converts was John Murray, another Methodist preacher, who was excommunicated for his universalist views.
While Murray believed that all souls were corrupted with original sin, his view of universalism was based on Christ as the head of the human family.
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 A Sense of Place
It was on his move to London that Murray learned of the theological views of James Relly, who was preaching universal salvation.
Relly was constantly held up to opprobrium in the sermons from the pulpit of the Methodist tabernacle Murray attended.
So insistent were the suggestions that anyone who believed that all men would be saved must be capable of all sorts of loose living and vileness, that Murray and his wife could not resist the temptation to attend a Relly meeting and see for themselves.
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 Tufts Magazine Online
After reading the book, Murray and his wife checked Relly's arguments against the Bible, prayed about the results, and found themselves more and more in doubt about the Calvinist doctrines of predestination and eternal damnation.
As for Relly's sermon, Murray is said to have remarked to his wife that it was "the first consistent sermon I have ever heard." Before long, he was a confirmed believer in Universalism and a close friend of Relly.
Meanwhile, his friend Relly was urging him to go out into the world to preach.
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 John Murray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The influence of John Wesley relieved that fear in some respects, but once the pattern of his progress away from the harsher elements of Calvinism had begun, it would not stop short of the total rejection of everlasting punishment.
The key to Murray's development was his reading of James Relly's Union (1759) and his subsequent listening to his preaching.
Relly argued that all humanity actually achieved union with Christ in his death and therefore had already paid the price for sin.
www.webuus.com /timeline/John_Murray.html   (479 words)

  
 Murray, John (10 Dec
In 1760, after he was asked by the Methodist church, of which he was still a member, to reason with a young woman who had become an "unwavering believer of universal redemption," Murray himself became a convert to that doctrine.
It was taught by James Relly, a much-maligned, zealous
He was thrown out of Whitefield's congregation, arrested for debt (from which his brother-in-law rescued him), his young son died, then his wife and four of his siblings died.
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 Universalism: Time Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
1746- James Relly was dismissed as a Methodist Minister for preaching universal salvation.
1750- James Relly became an independent preacher of the doctrine of universal salvation.
1778- Reverend James Relly died and was buried in the Maze Pond Baptist Ground, (Southwark) London, England.
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 American Unitarian and Universalist Hymnody: Capsules and Highlights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was into this blossoming musical scene, - the breaking of the tradition of psalmody, the free use of hymns in church and of topical songs for rallies and entertainment - that John Murray came from England in 1770.
Murray was a convert of James Relly in England.
When Relly organized his London congregation, he and his brother John, desirous of singing their own gospel and not that of the orthodox, wrote and published their own book of hymn texts in 1770.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Universalists
The functions of this body were enlarged in 1866 and further extended in 1870, until it became the highest legislative authority for the United States and Canada.
The first Universalist congregation was organized in 1750 in London by Rev. James Relly, who ministered to its spiritual needs until his death (1778).
In spite of this early establishment few Universalist churches exist at present in Europe; but Universalism is undoubtedly believed in outside of the denomination.
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 Universalist Church of America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The doctrine is old, but no organized body of believers took it as a distinctive feature of their church until modern times.
The Universalist denomination in the United States originated with John Murray, a convert to Universalism as taught by James Relly in England.
After preaching there and in New York and New England, he settled in Gloucester, Mass., where in 1779 he became pastor of the first Universalist church in the United States.
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