1805 MASSACHUSETTS MISSIONARY MAG. Revivals, Miraculous Dreams, Negro Preachers, &c

An essential Second Great Awakening and early Missionary Movement primary resource, with original contributions on local revivals, on the prevalence of miraculous dreams, on missions and missionaries among the Jews, in Tahiti, etc.; and a fantastic account of "Negro Preacher," Moses Preacher, etc. 

[Revival, Missionary, Black Preaching] The Massachusetts Missionary Magazine for the Year 1805. Containing Religious and Interesting Communications, Calculated to Edify Christians, and Inform the Rising Generation. Edited by Messieurs Nathanael Emmons, David Sanford, Daniel Hopkins, Samual Spring, Joseph Barker, Samuel Niles, Samuel Austin, Abiel Holmes, Jonathan Strong, Samuel Worcester, Jacob Norton, Paul Litchfield, and Elijah Parish. Boston. E. Lincoln. 1805. 480pp.

Contents include: 

Revival of Religion in New-Connecticut [5pp]; Abraham Offering His Isaac by James Hervey; On the Irremissible Sin; The Good Impression of Some Remarkable Dreams [God speaking through dreams, 1729]; Extensive Series on the 9^th Chapter of Romans by “A Predestinarian”; Account of Missionaries among the Welsh; Memoir of John Capsar Lavater; Evidences for Infant Baptism Exhibited from Scripture by Jotham Sewall; On Covenanting with God by Trumbull; Account of Moses Baker. An Eminent Black Preacher of Jamaica [Superb]; Revival of Religion in Williamstown [2pp]; Plain Reasons for being a Thorough Calvinist; On the Providence of God in Bringing Sinners to Christ; The Remarkable Conversion of a Child in the Revival at Williamstown; Accounts of the Missions of the United Brethren [Moravians] among the Heathen in Labradore, Hopedale, etc., including a Revival of Religion.; A Remarkable Awakening at Darwen in Lancashire [3.5pp]; An Account of the Life of the Late John Berridge [of the Great Awakening]; Civil War and Missionary Work in Tahiti / Otaheite; A Remarkable Account of the Conversion of Three Jewish Children in Berlin, 1715.; The Fulfillment of Prophecy in the Destruction of Jerusalem; Extracts from Jacob Cram’s Journal, including accounts of first-person hearing of David Brainerd’s preaching, etc.

Bears the bookplate of Abraham Burnham (1775-1852). Burnham was a congregational minister in Pembroke, NH. Born Nov 18, 1775 in Dunbarton, NH. Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1804. Taught school in Concord and Bradford, MA. Academies; studied for the ministry with Rev. Elijah Parish D.D. of Byfield, MA. He was ordained pastor at Pembroke, March 2, 1808, just after a Society had been organized in the south part of town. In 1815, a Congregational Society in Pembroke was incorporated, meetings to be held all the time in the south, half the time in the north meeting house. He was dismissed in 1850 after 42 years of service and given a D.D. Degree by Dartmouth. He died in Pembroke, Sept. 21, 1852.

A good copy in original worn calf, some minor restorations. Generally solid, some handling to pages and one with a page loss in the margin [not affecting text]. Blank ffep lacking. A solid working copy.