...of Christian brethren in Christ, looking ahead to the millennial age.'1'1 In 1747, Edwards published An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People and compared the two forms of public worship. A fast day proclaimed by the civil government of a Christian...

...union" of Christian brethren in Christ, looking ahead to the millennial age. In 1747, Edwards published An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People and compared the two forms of public worship. A fast day proclaimed by the civil government of a Christian...

...vol. 5 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 444-60; Edwards, An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and...Religion and the Advancement of Christ's Kingdom on Earth (Boston, 1747); Historical Collections Relating to Remarkable Periods of the Success of the Gospel,...

...Original Sin; The Life of David Brainerd; A History of the Work of Redemption; Notes on the Apocalypse; An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and...Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer; Images of Divine Things and Types; more than one thousand sermons; many publications on revivalism;...

...the assertion, 'Edwards never seemed to tire of this subject.'76 Amongst the published writings, the Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer makes the point most powerfully, even in its long title, cited here.77 This text is Edwards' attempt...

...Mather's call for prayer. Jonathan Edwards sounded the theme in a treatise urging evangelicals to engage in "Extraordinary Prayer for the Revival of Religion and the Advancement of Christ's kingdom on earth."57 While acknowledging that God alone brought revival, and that Christians should "fetch down"...

...Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism (Cambridge, 1994), 208. 10. Jonathan Edwards, A Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer, quoted in Roland Delattre, Beauty and Sensibility in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven, Conn.,...

...from His Own Diary and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use. Boston: D. Henchman 1749. - An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and...Advancement of Christ's Kingdom on Earth, Pursuant to Scripture Promises and Prophesies concerning the Last Time. Worcester, Mass., 1808. Elbourne, Elizabeth....

...surprisingly, is that the number of those who savingly know God vastly exceeds that of those who don't. In An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and...Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer, Edwards asserts that the millennium will involve "an abundant outpouring of the Spirit of God, far...

...Concerning the Present Revival of Religion, 353-54; Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts, 272; Jonathan Edwards, An Humble Attempt to Promote Explicit Agreement and...Visible Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer, Apocalyptic Writings, 411, 533; Stein, "Editor's Introduction," ibid., 28; McDermott, One Holy and...