@booklet {9575, title = {The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L.L.D. Governor and Commander in Chief, and the Honorable The General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Convened at Hartford, At the Anniversary Election, May 8th, 1783}, year = {1783}, note = {

Rpt. ed. Reiner Smolinski. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041\&context=etas.\ A different version was published in The Kingdom, the Power, \& the Glory: The Millennial Impulse in Early American Literature. Ed. Reiner Smolinski (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1998), 441\–492.\ 

}, month = {1783}, pages = {99 pp.}, publisher = {Thomas \& Samuel Green}, address = {New Haven, CT}, abstract = {

The United States presented as an achieved eutopia, which will be a model to and leader of the rest of the world due to its governmental system and true religion. The country will have a population of forty to fifty million before the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. See also his\ A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760. Boston, N.E.: Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, 1761. Rpt.\ Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. that projects New England into the next century.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ezra Stiles D.D. (1727-95)} } @booklet {10781, title = {A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760}, year = {1761}, note = {

Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp.\ 

}, month = {1761}, pages = {139 pp.}, publisher = {Printed and sold by Edes and Gill}, address = {Boston, N.E.}, abstract = {

Projects New England into the next century. Most of the book is concerned with what Christians agreed upon and where they disagree. From page 145 (1799 ed.) a lot of space is devoted to the increase in population of each of the four sects he finds worthy of attention, Episcopalians, Friends (Quakers), Baptists, and Congregationalists, with the last showing the greatest increase in population and in the number of churches. His concern is that without unity among Christians, or at least Protestants, the coming generations will become indifferent or tempted by other churches. Therefore, he gives suggestions for those who in the future will found new communities. He stresses the need for such new communities to establish churches and bring in ministers. At page 154 (1799 ed.) he projects one hundred years into the future, when he foresees the plain churches of his day replaced \“with temples whose colonades [as spelled] are deckt with guilt busts of angels winged. . . .\” Seven million Congregationalists at that time.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ezra Stiles A.M. (1727-95)} }