A Piety Above the Common Standard: Jesse Mercer and the Defense of Evangelistic Calvinism (Baptists: History, Literature, Theology, Hymns)

by Anthony L. Chute

"Jesse Mercer (1769 1841) was a Baptist pastor, editor, and denominational statesman who figured prominently in the debates over Calvinism among Southern clergymen. Most studies of Calvinism in Ame…