1797 THEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. Jonathan Edwards, Revivals, William Carey, and More.

Very rare early American periodical with superb content, including multiple accounts of revivals from very early in the Second Great Awakening, what seems a true first publication of Jonathan Edwards on Imputation [from his original manuscripts]; extensive content from William Carey, etc. 

The Theological Magazine, or Synopsis of Modern Religious Sentiment. October 1797 through February 1799. New York. Cornelius Davis. 1799. 474pp

A Call to Drunkards; A Dissertation on the Person and Character of Melchisedec; A Letter from John Berridge to John Ryland from 1778; Observations on Universal Salvation; On the Millennium; Account of the Meeting of the London Missionary Society; Account of a Revival of Religion at Norridgewock on the Kennebeck River [superb!]; Revival among the Stockbridge Indians; A Speech Composed by a North American Indian, without any Assistance, or Correction, by any but those of His Own Colour; A Letter from William Carey; The Return of the Jews to their Own Land; On Hell Torments; Remarks on Female Ornament [and Dress]; Account of Calvin's Treatment of Servetus; Hopkinsianism Vindicated; Whether Salvation Extends to the Heathen; History of the Plague in London [1665]; Samuel Hopkins Vindicated; Decrees Reconciled with Liberty; William Carey and the Baptist Mission in Bengal / Serampore [Extensive]; Of Divine Decrees and Election; The Doctrine of Imputation [taken from a Manuscript of President Edwards; first publication?]; Of Suicide; Extensive Early Review of William Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems, etc. 

Original full calf; rubbed and bumped at extremities, but very sound. Blank ffep lacking. One issue more heavily toned than the remainder. Solid and generally clean.