Here’s a little anecdote on how John Bunyan once responded to a Cambridge critic about his use of the English Bible:
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To these years before the Restoration belongs also the story of Bunyan’s encounter on the road near Cambridge with the university man, who asked him how he, not having the original Scriptures, dared to preach. To this he gave answer by asking this scholar, in turn, if he himself had the originals, the actual copies written by prophets and apostles. No, but he had what he knew to be true copies of the originals. “ And I,’’ said Bunyan, “ believe the English Bible to be a true copy also,” upon which the university man went his way.—John Brown, John Bunyan: His Life, Times, and Work (1885), p. 117