{"id":1646,"date":"2011-02-25T00:51:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2013-06-14T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T16:59:18","slug":"%e2%80%9cthoroughly-drenched-in-the-word%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thoroughly Drenched in the Word&#8221;\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another excerpt from Adam Nicolson&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060838736?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060838736\">God&#8217;s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wmqhwtqtfxonyprsqszb\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0060838736\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Here Nicolson is describing the widespread attentiveness to Scripture and the in depth, intense preaching of the day. Something to aspire to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;week after week, preachers would occupy their pulpits analysing texts, pursuing moral and theological arguments, exercising the difficult and demanding skills that hold a congregation&#8217;s attention.\u00a0 They were clearly good at it.\u00a0 Laurence Chaderton, the moderate Puritan leader, once paused after two hours of a Cambridge sermon. The entire congregation stood up and shouted, &#8216;For God&#8217;s sake go on!&#8217; He gave them another hour.<\/p>\n<p>There can never have been a time in which Englishmen were so thoroughly drenched in the word.&#8221;\u009d (181-82)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another excerpt from Adam Nicolson&#8217;s, God&#8217;s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. Here Nicolson is describing the widespread attentiveness to Scripture and the in depth, intense preaching of the day. Something to aspire to: &#8220;&#8230;week after week, preachers would occupy their pulpits analysing texts, pursuing moral and theological arguments, exercising the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Thoroughly Drenched in the Word&#8221;\u009d&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}