Note 269 — Chapter II · (continued 2)
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Chauncy is claimed by the modern Universalists as prefiguring their faith. Cf. Whittemore’s Modern Hist. of Universalism; and Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 488. See the characterization of Chauncy in Tyler’s Amer. Literature, ii. 200; and his portrait in Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 226.