Laurence Chaderton, the extraordinarily long-lived Master of that nursery of Puritanism, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, once apologized to his congregation for preaching to them for two straight hours. Their response was to cry, ‘For God’s sake, Sir, go on, go on!’ To people who have never experienced the Bible as something thrilling, such behaviour sounds at best boring, and at worst deranged. But Europe had been without a Bible people could read for something like a thousand years. To be able to read God’s words, and to see in them such good news that God saves sinners, not on the basis of how
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