{"id":1339,"count":1,"description":"A High-Calvinist Magazine\r\n\r\n\u201cThe Primitive Baptist (or Church) Magazine\u201d started in 1841, edited by William Norton  (1812-1890), a Strict Baptist pastor. While it maintained a strong emphasis on the need for a strict communion table, it cracked open the door to the pernicious teachings of Fullerism. However, the magazine certainly commended High-Calvinism on its pages, demonstrated by the following extract. \r\n\r\nUpon his return to England from America, a Mr. Bates wrote the following in a letter to Mr. Norton (the editor): \r\n\r\n\u201cMy Dear Brother,\u2014I have at length arrived at home in safety\u2026As regards their theology, some few aged men \u201cfear that there is a decline in doctrine as well as piety for some years past,\u201d and \u201cthough there is considerable piety and energy, yet the churches, as a whole, are not quite so prosperous as they were come few years ago.\u201d I think that their young ministers from what I heard, are not so Calvinistic as they should be. Andrew Fuller\u2019s theology is almost universally received, unless, indeed, that some may think he is rather narrow. Last year the Baptist Publication Society circulated 50,000 volumes, and among them about 700 sets of A. Fuller\u2019s works. There are about twenty-seven churches in New York and Brooklyn, and, with the exception of six or seven ministers, I should think that they hold universal atonement.\u201d\r\n\r\nWe suspect this magazine ended its publications in the late 1860\u2019s. \r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/strict-baptist-magazines\/the-primitive-baptist-magazine\/","name":"The Primitive Baptist Magazine","slug":"the-primitive-baptist-magazine","taxonomy":"category","parent":1323,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1323"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}