condition before accepting the pastorate at Ebenezer. That condition is best explained by Chapman himself: When I was invited to leave London and go to minister the Word of God in Ebenezer Chapel, then occupied by a community of Strict Baptists, I consented to do so, naming one condition only—that I should be free to teach all I found written in the Scripture. To their credit, the people agreed to this condition and Chapman began his life-long work in Barnstaple. Gradually the church changed under