Old Age and Religion in the Writings and Life of Jonathan Edwards

In hisFaithful Narrative of a Surprising Work of God, an account of the awakening of 1734-35 in his church at Northampton, Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards excitedly reported a considerable number of old persons among the several hundred converts. "I suppose," he wrote, "there were ... more than twenty of them above fifty, and about ten of them above sixty, and two of them above seventy years of age." Edwards's evident self-satisfaction stemmed from the widespread belief that conversion among the elderly was unusual. "It has been a thing heretofore rarely to be heard of," he noted, "that any were converted past middle age; but now we have the same ground to think that many such have in this time been savingly changed, as that others have been so in more early years

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