He was also author of the Arminian Magazine from 1775 to 1789, when he was dropped from the position by John Wesley for numerous printing errors.

[1] After his involvement in a scandal which forced him to leave his home, Olivers travelled to Bristol where he heard George Whitfield preach on the text "is not this a brand plucked from the fire?"

Due to a lack of formal education, Olivers' editorial of the magazine contained several printing errors, which annoyed Wesley but he persevered with Olivers whom he counted as a friend and attached a list of errors at the back of the yearly annual in 1778.

However following an "astounding number of errata", Wesley declared in a letter that "I cannot, dare not, will not suffer Thomas Olivers to murder the Arminian Magazine any longer.

[2] His most well-known hymn was "The God of Abraham Praise",[2] which he wrote after hearing Lyon sing "Yigdal" in the Great Synagogue of London.