1801 NEW YORK MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. John Witherspoon - First Native American City - Slavery & Africa &c.

A fair, but complete reading copy of an important and increasingly rare work with significant early American content related to the spiritual instruction of women, children, and the "American Gentile," i.e. Native American population; ongoing debates regarding the work of foreign missions; and extensive content related to the Second Great Awakening, etc., 

The New York Missionary Magazine, and Repository of Religious Intelligence; for the year 1801. Vol. II. New York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, for Cornelius Davis. 1801. 480pp.

Contents include: The Mediation of Christ Consistent with Reason; An Inquiry into the Scripture Meaning of Charity by Rev. John Witherspoon; An important dialogue on the appropriateness of foreign missions entitled “A Dialogue between Africanus, Americanus, and Benevolus, on Sending Missionaries to Carry the Gospel to the Heathen in Africa; The Right Way of Rejoicing at Christmas [extensive review]; Letter from Jonathan Edwards to Thomas Gillespie dated 4^th September 1747; On the Moral Tendencies of Atheism and Universalism; Letters on Education by John Witherspoon [series]; Report of Mr. Elkanah Holmes – Missionary to the Seneca and Tuscarora Tribes of New York; Address of the Tuscarora Chiefs to the New York Missionary Society; Report of an Address made by Red Jacket of the Seneca Nation on October 20^th, 1800; On the Necessity of Knowledge to Moral Agency; Of the Person of Melchisedec; The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Mirriage State as Entered into with Religious or Irreligious Persons Represented under the Similitude of a Dream by J. Johnson; On the Conflict between Sin and Grace; On the Depravity of Morals; Reflections Occasioned on the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century; Review of the Warrant and Nature of Faith by Thomas Scott; An Account of the Rev. John Eliot – Apostle of the American Indians; On Hating and Cursing Enemies by Jonathan Edwards; A Plan for the More Effectual Religious Instruction of Children and Youth; On the Character of George Whitefield; Extensive First-Hand Report of a Revival of Religion in the Highlands of Scotland by Alexander Stewart of Moulin, Scotland; A full print of The Constitution of the Massachusetts Missionary Society; On the Evil of Sin; Of Nonantum – The First Civilized and Christian Settlement of Indians of North America and the First Fruits of the American Gentiles; Review of Abraham Booth’s Glad Tidings to Perishing Sinners; Letter from William Carey at Serampore – dated December 9, 1800; Further Account of the Revival in the Highlands of Scotland; A Further Accoiunt of the First Christian Settlement of Indians in North America; The Character of Selina Countess of Huntingdon; Extracts from the MSs Journal of John Sergeant – Missionary to the Stockbridge Indians; Speech of a Tuscorora Woman at a Religious Conference at Oneida; On the Institution of the Boston Female Asylum [with organic prospectus]; Remarks on the Prophecies and Promises Relating to the Glory of the Latter Day; Letter from Mr. Berridge to Jonathan Edwards on the Death of His Wife [Sarah Edwards]; etc.

Fair, in original binding; with losses and damage as shown. Boards barely intact. Contents handled and stained as shown, but complete. A reasonable working copy.