Edwards establishes the principle that a full-fledged revival will involve a balance between personal concern for individuals and social concern. A revival is therefore not something exclusively “spiritual” and “religious.” Edwards insists that the proliferation of religiosity in the form of meetings, prayer, singing and religious talk will not promote or sustain revival without works of love and mercy, which will “bring the God of love down from heaven to earth… to set up his tabernacle with men on the earth, and dwell with them.”
