The Gospel Magazine

A High-Calvinist Magazine “The Gospel Magazine And Protestant Beacon” started in 1766, its editors were mainly High-Calvinist Anglicans. Its first set of articles “aimed, through divine assistance, to make the holy scriptures the standard of our Divinity: The doctrines in our Magazines were confirmed by the Protestant churches at the Reformation, and by the Articles of the Church of England, and also by the Confession of Faith and Catechisms of the judicious and pious Assembly of Divine at Westminster: And, we hope, by the experience of true Christians and found believers in all ages of the Church. The external knowledge of the Scriptures of principles of our holy Religion is not all that is necessary; for the Spirit of God only can make them powerful and efficacious upon our hearts; but it is a great advantage to understand the nature of the Covenant of works and the Covenant of grace, wherein the fall and ruin of man by the first Adam is discovered, and the only way of recovery, by flying for refuge to Jesus Christ, the Second Adam, the Mediator of the New Covenant. All orthodox doctrines are grounded upon right apprehension of these two Covenants.” Among the editors of the magazine were Augustus Toplady (1740-1778) and David Doudney (1811–1893). Although not a Strict Baptist magazine, its gospel teachings promoted high views of sovereign grace, attracting the Strict Baptists to its pages.