Johann Wilhelm Petersen

Johann Wilhelm Petersen, a German-born Philadelphian and Pietist, gave her views scriptural foundations in his Mystery of the Restitution of All Things (1700–10).

…Germany under the leadership of Johann Wilhelm Petersen, who led groups of Philadelphian Pietists identifying themselves with the sixth church referred to in Revelation 3:7–13. A Philadelphian Society was organized in London in 1681 under Jane Leade, whose religious views were based on the thought of the German mystic Jakob…