1799 EARLY AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL MAG. Revivals, Sierra Leone, Native American Revival, Slavery, William Carey.

Very rare full year of the earliest American theological periodical, with superb content. We now very rarely see these on the market.

Contents include: A Call to Drunkards; Of the Soul in the Intermediate State; A Dissertation on the Person and Character of Melchisedec; Short Comments on New Texts [Response to Thomas Paine]; On the Light of Nature; On the Impartiality of God; Deists if they will be Governed by the Principles of Reason must be Reduced to Despair; Observations upon an Argument in Favour of Universal Salvation from the Benevolent Feelings of the Pious Heart; On the Millennium; The Welch Indians [ St. Louis, Ohio, etc.]; Letter from J. Clark of Sierra Leone; Account of a Revival of Religion at Norridgewock on Kennebeck River - the Habitation of Savages and Beasts; Letter from an Indian to a Missionary; Infidelity Now on Trial; On the Education of Indian Youth [A new plan for educating Native Americans]; A Speech by a North American Indian Addressed to the Great Sachem and Chiefs now Sitting around the Great Council Fire; Letter from Mr. William Carey to John Newton; On the Return of the Jews to their Home Land; On Hell Torments; Remarks on Female Ornament Recommended; On the Benevolence and Happiness of God; Effects of Skepticism in the last Moments of Life; Account of the Treatment of John Calvin toward Servetus; On Holy Love; On the Immorality of Error; Hopkinsianism Vindicated; Whether Salvation Extends to the Heathen; History of the Plague in London in 1665; The Decrees Reconciled with Liberty; Brotherly Reproof; The Baptist Mission in Bengal by William Carey; On Divine Decrees and Election; On the Ultimate End of God in Creation; Of the Will and Affections by Jonathan Edwards [from a MSs]; Of Suicide; The Damned Moral Agents; Extensive Review of the First American Edition of William Wilberforce A Practical View, etc. 

The Theological Magazine, Or, Synopsis of Modern Religious Sentiment. On a New Plan. October 1797 through February 1799. New York. Cornelius Davis. 1799. 474pp + index. 

A good copy, bound in leather with the front board detached. Text is generally solid, with light to moderate foxing, and a bit toned throughout.