1797 MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. Slavery, John Newton, Scottish Revivals, Robert Haldane, William Carey, etc.

Very rare second complete year of Greville Ewing's [Scottish] non-denominational missionary magazine with exceptional primary source content related to Slavery, John Newton, Revivals, Extensive Content Related to the Lay-Preaching Revival Plan of James and Robert Haldane, William Carey, etc. etc. 

Ewing, Greville [ed.] The Missionary Magazine for 1797, a Periodical Monthly Publication, Intended as a Repository of Discussion, and Intelligence Respecting the Progress of the Gospel throughout the World. Vol. II. Edinburgh. Printed by James Pillans & Sons. 1797. 585pp.

Contents include:

*The Peculiar Advantages of Bengal as a Field for Missions for Great Britain. 

*Revival of Religion at Orkney

*Letter from Christian Friedrich Schwartz [Missionary to India]

*Report of Drs Jedidiah Morse and Jeremy Bellknap [Series; Missions in North America, Oneida, Stockbridge, etc.]

*A Circular Letter from the Baptist Ministers and Messengers Assembled at St. Albans, Maintaining the Important Doctrines of Three Equal Persons in the Godhead; Eternal and Personal Election; Original Sin; Particular Redemption, etc. by John Gill

*On the Warrant of a Minister of the Gospel to become a Missionary

*A Plan for Spreading the Gospel at Home by Philadelphos [Greville Ewing]

*An Address of the New York Missionary Society by John M. Mason

*Sanctified Affliction and the Power of Faith Exemplified in [the Life of] Jean Nevey.

*Extensive Review of James Tytler's Response to the Second Part of Age of Reason by Thomas Paine [4pp].

*Extensive Review of Abraham Booth's Glad Tidings to Perishing Sinners. 

*A Letter from Rev. John Clark, Chaplain at Sierra Leone

*Letter to Mr. Thomas Paine on Revelation [4.5pp + 7.5pp, original; apparently not published elsewhere]

*On Fervency in Religion.

*Mr. Thomas' Conversation with the Brahmans, before his Return to England in 1792

*Plan for Making Our Common Supplications, in Concern, at the Throne of Grace [for Revival] with a Schedule of Prayer Meetings

*Anecdote of Lewis Christopher Daehne, a Moravian Missionary, who spent thirty years in the services of the Missions of the Brethren in South America.

*A Letter from William Romaine

*Extensive Review of Robert Balfour's "The Salvation of the Heathen necessary and certain, etc."

*The Journal of William Carey

*Character and Disposition of the Africans [ Slavery, Abolition, Colonization ]

*African Idea of God

*Thoughts on Obtaining Missionaries

*On the Intended Mission to Bengal

*Plan of the Mission to Bengal

*An Essay on the Means by which the Gospel was Originally Propagated in the World

*The Labours of Mr. Samuel Davies among the African Slaves of America

*Letters from Messrs William Carey and John Thomas to Andrew Fuller

*The Missionary Spirit of the Rev. Dr. Philip Doddridge

*Success of the Gospel at Gibraltar by David Bogue

*The Pastoral Care of Jesus over the Heathen by James Johnstone [Extensive Review]

*Predictions Concerning the Person and Kingdom of Messiah, Illustrated. by Malcolm Colquhoun [Extensive Review]

*The Importance of Itinerancies in Scotland

*Who Have a Right to Preach the Gospel? Robert Haldane [Important relative to the lay preachers under the Haldanes, etc.]

*William Wilberforce. A Practical View of the Pevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians, etc,. [Extensive Review, 8.5pp].

*Copy of a Handbill "To the Jewish People of London," in an effort to introduce them to their Messiah. And An Address to the Jews.

*On the State of Religion in the [Scottish] Highlands

*Hints Towards a Plan for Spreading the Knowledge of the Gospel in Scotland [Haldane Revival Interest]

*John Newton Letter [not seemingly in his Works]. A Letter form the Rev. Mr. Newton [John] to the Rev. Mr. L________n.

*A Reply to the Author of "An Inquiry, who have a Right to Preach the Gospel?" [Series - Haldane Revival Interest]

*Messiah's Glorious Rest in the Latter Days by N. Douglas [Extensive Review]

*Hintes on a Mission to Jamaica

*Lines from Cowper on the Late Rev. George Whitefield 

*Defense of Lay-Preaching

*The Importance of Itinerancies