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Show 112 "Enough! Twenty years ago King James acquiesced to Puritan demands for an authorized version of the Bible. He met your demands, still you are not content...You are wretched, rigid...impossible Puritans!" Laud's reproach was met by Lathrop head on. "The Bible is not the issue...but if you want to make it one...." Lathrop picked up Laud's Bible and opened it to the dedicatory page. "Here, in the dedication: if it weren't for King James, 'men should be in doubt which way to even walk.' Now I ask you...is that reasonable? My conscience is sufficient in that matter and all others--! don't need the King to' tell me how to walk. And here~-King James is a 'sanctified person' who is the 'immediate Author of our true happiness.' He is 'like the Sun, dispelling all the gloom...' I can tell you--the King, James or Charles, is not the author of my happiness," Lathrop closed the Bible. "That dedication is merely an acknowledgement of His Majesty's graciousness in commissioning the new translation of the Bible. You know that!" Laud snatched the Bible back from Lathrop. "The man who wrote it...he did such a fine job he was rewarded with the title of 'Bishop,' wasn't he?" Lathrop indeed did know the fact of the matter. "James was right! A Puritan is a Protestant 'strayed out of his wits!'" Laud was beginning to pace, angry with himself for thinking he could have |