is where the absolute ‘last word’ of Scripture must sort the wheat from the chaff. Hence, the apostle Paul’s counsel: ‘… test everything; hold fast what is good’ (1 Thess. 5:21 ESV).”21 Tradition, for Packer, is thus something that must be judged. It can too easily shape our readings of Scripture, highlighting some ideas and obscuring others. All Protestants, Packer reminds us, stand within traditions—whether Anglican or Baptist, Pentecostal or Dispensationalist, Reformed or Lutheran, Methodist or