1822 WESLEYAN-METHODIST MAG. Wesley on Slavery, James Arminius, Revivals and Holiness, etc.

A superbly bound and preserved entire year of the Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, being the continuation of John Wesley's Arminian Magazine. Excellent content on missions, methodist theology, devotion, revivals, abolition and slavery, etc. A really fine example. 

[Various]. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine for the Year 1822. Being a Continuation of the Arminian, or Methodist Magazine; First Published by the Rev. John Wesley. Vol I. Third Series. 1822 Complete. London. Printed by T. Cordeux: 836pp.

Contents include: full-page engraving of Joseph Benson; Biography of Joseph Benson; Memoir Mrs. Horne - Missionary to the Slaves of Jamaica; Sermon on Christ the Power and Wisdom of God by John Emory; Description of the Diamond Mines at Mandango; Extensive Review of Thomas Chalmers' Civic Economy; Full-page Engraving of John Emory; The Character of the Early Methodists; The Awful Death of a Prevaricator; An Original [unpublished] Letter of William Grimshaw of Haworth; Providential Interposition in Behalf of the Early Christians; The Wicked Described and Warned by John Fletcher; On Praying to Jesus Christ by William Jenkin [series]; The Awful Death of a Sabbath-Breaker; On the Ludicrous Use of the Language of the Holy Scriptures in Matters of Common Life; Extensive Review of the Farewell Letters of William Ward of Serampore [William Carey, etc.]; Account of a Revival of Religion in Trinidad; The Work of J. B. Finley among the Wyandotte Indians; The First Oration on Theology by James Arminius; On Prayer for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit; On the Two Schools of Preachers in Iceland; Sleepers in God's House Reproved; Sermon on the Love of God Our Neighbor and Ourselves by Adam Clarke; Remarks on Some Improprieties in the Expressions of Love to Our Saviour; Extensive Review of the Practical Works of Richard Baxter; On the Practice of Public Baking on the Lord's Day; Providential Arrangements Discovered in Chemistry; The Angels Studying the Gospel by John Stephens; The Cruelties and Death of Nackee Khan; Account of Adoniram Judson; A Brief Statement of the Doctrine of Grace as Held by Evangelical Arminians; Many Accounts of Missionaries in the South Sea Islands. South Africa; New Zealand; Antigua, The Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, Tahiti, Crimea, etc.; The Spirit's Prophetic Testimony Concerning the Sufferings and the Glory of Christ by John Burdsall; etc. 

Includes fascinating account of the views of John Wesley on Slavery; on the Response of Methodists to the Slave Trade Bill of 1822 in Parliament, etc. 

Very good condition in original, elaborate full calf binding. Flat back with geometrically tooled panels and contrasting black and red title and date panels. Boards are beautifully mottled with a simple double line tooled border. Endpapers are a lovely birds-eye marble in red and blue with the text block sprinkled in blue. Textually very good with only some very slight scattered foxing.