Joe S
18th October 2008, 12:36 AM
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Benjamin Keach
1640-1704
Early Particular Baptist pastor and theologian, who pastored for 36 years (1668-1704) at the church at Horse-lie-down (Horselydown) Southwark, which later became the famous Metropolitan Tabernacle where John Gill and C. H. Spurgeon pastored.(1)
Keach was baptized at age 15 and at age 18 began ministering. For the next 10 years he ministered as an evangelist and pastored a congregation at Winslow.(2) Keach, as a nonconformist and Baptist, suffered much persecution and ridicule, most famously after the publication of his book The Child's Instructor, or A New and Easy Primer, for which he was fined, pilloried and imprisoned in 1664.(3)
Keach represented the church at Horse-lie-down at the Baptist General Assembly in London in 1689, where the London Particular Baptists subscribed to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, a modified version of the Puritan Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646.(4) The Baptist Catechism which bears his name, also a modified version of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, was most likely written by William Collins.(5)
Benjamin Keach is remembered for having been one of the first proponents of congregational hymn singing (as opposed to Metrical Psalm singing) in formal worship services in England in the 17th century.(6)
(1) Benjamin Keach, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Keach)
(2) Benjamin Keach, The Reformed Reader (http://www.reformedreader.org/rbb/keach/keachindex.htm)
(3) Benjamin Keach Testified Before a Harsh Magistrate (http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/10/daily-10-09-2003.shtml)
(4) A Tabular Comparison of the 1646 WCF and the 1689 LBCF (http://www.proginosko.com/docs/wcf_lbcf.html)
(5) Keach's Catechism (http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/keachcat.htm)
(6) Hymnology: Benjamin Keach (http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Metrical.Psalmody/Benjamin.Keach.html)
Benjamin Keach
1640-1704
Early Particular Baptist pastor and theologian, who pastored for 36 years (1668-1704) at the church at Horse-lie-down (Horselydown) Southwark, which later became the famous Metropolitan Tabernacle where John Gill and C. H. Spurgeon pastored.(1)
Keach was baptized at age 15 and at age 18 began ministering. For the next 10 years he ministered as an evangelist and pastored a congregation at Winslow.(2) Keach, as a nonconformist and Baptist, suffered much persecution and ridicule, most famously after the publication of his book The Child's Instructor, or A New and Easy Primer, for which he was fined, pilloried and imprisoned in 1664.(3)
Keach represented the church at Horse-lie-down at the Baptist General Assembly in London in 1689, where the London Particular Baptists subscribed to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, a modified version of the Puritan Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646.(4) The Baptist Catechism which bears his name, also a modified version of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, was most likely written by William Collins.(5)
Benjamin Keach is remembered for having been one of the first proponents of congregational hymn singing (as opposed to Metrical Psalm singing) in formal worship services in England in the 17th century.(6)
(1) Benjamin Keach, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Keach)
(2) Benjamin Keach, The Reformed Reader (http://www.reformedreader.org/rbb/keach/keachindex.htm)
(3) Benjamin Keach Testified Before a Harsh Magistrate (http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/10/daily-10-09-2003.shtml)
(4) A Tabular Comparison of the 1646 WCF and the 1689 LBCF (http://www.proginosko.com/docs/wcf_lbcf.html)
(5) Keach's Catechism (http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/keachcat.htm)
(6) Hymnology: Benjamin Keach (http://www.smithcreekmusic.com/Hymnology/Metrical.Psalmody/Benjamin.Keach.html)