 Another well-known author whose work on religious emotions is regulative is Jonathan Edwards. In A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, Edwards aims to correct both a passionless Christianity and a revivalist “enthusiasm” that confuses emotional intensity with the work of the Holy Spirit. Edwards begins by discussing the nature and importance of emotions in the Christian life, and then turns to a systematic treatment of twenty-four supposed “signs” or criteria for the genuineness of religious emotions. The first twelve signs turn out not to be genuine criteria: They do not rule out the emotion’s being a work of the Spirit, but neither are they specific marks of it. Thus, for example, a person’s emotions in a revival meeting might be extremely intense (sign 1), or attended by great bodily perturbations (sign 2), or might dispose the subject to talk volubly about religion (sign 3), but these marks show nothing one way or the other about the Christian character of the affection.