Welcome to a special bonus episode of five minutes in church history.

Today is October 5, 2013.

And on this day, Jonathan Edwards turns 310 years old.

I think he's looking better now than he ever did, but here it is on his

310th birthday and I thought the least we could do for him was have a special

episode in which we can talk about five reasons that we can be celebrating his birthday. Now we know of Edwards as a

pastor and a theologian, the writer of great books like religious affections and charity in its

fruits, but what we need to start with in C is Edwards as a devoted husband and a devoted father.

He first met Sarah, his wife, while he was a professor at Yale, and she was the daughter of the

pastor of the first church at New Haven.

And when he met her, he was struck by her. He went back to daughter of the pastor of the first church at New Haven.

And when he met her, he was struck by her.

He went back to his room, pulled down the book that he was lecturing on, opened it up,

and in the flyleaf of the book, he wrote a paragraph about this young lady in New Haven. He eventually married

her and they had 11 children together. At the end of his life he could speak of

the uncommon union that God had blessed them with.

Not only was he a devoted husband, he was also a devoted father.

He had, as I mentioned, 11 children.

One of them was Esther.

She went down to Princeton.

She married Aaron Burr Senior.

Of course, they had the child, Aaron Burr Senior. Of course they had the child Aaron Burr Junior.

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