THE CALVINISTIC MAGAZINE. CONDUCTED BY JAMES GALLAHER, FREDERICK A. ROSS & DAVID NELSON. FOR THE YEAR 1829. VOLUME III

Rogersville, TN: C. Armstrong, 1829. 385, [3] pp. Worn half leather over marbled boards [rubbed, corners chipped, spine leather worn away]. Text tanned, moderate foxing. Signature on front flypaper of Stephen Frontis, early member of the North Carolina Synod's Centre Presbyterian Church. Good+.

The Calvinistic Magazine, a Presbyterian publication, was printed from 1827 to 1830 and from 1845 through 1850, when it merged into the Weekly Presbyterian Register.
"The Calvinistic Magazine attained a reputation and an influence of great value to the Church at a time when something of its kind seemed especially needed. Some objected that it was too controversial and belligerent; but it suited a period of polemics, when Arminians had become very aggressive in their attacks on the Presbyterian faith and order. To repel these attacks and to defend our Church against their misrepresentations of her doctrines being one important purpose of the magazine, its pages abounded with sermons, essays and dialogues on all the principal subjects on which the parties differed in doctrine and polity" [Alexander, A Brief History of the Synod of Tennessee, from 1817 to 1887, page 63,]. The Magazine also dished out some dirt on Roman Catholicism.
Allen 809. Not in Lomazow, Eberstadt, Decker, Sabin, American Imprints.