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" Sermons up to seven hours long were not unheard-of. 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! "

Michael Reeves , The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation


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Michael Reeves quote : Sermons up to seven hours long were not unheard-of. 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!