Published in 1693 by British Baptists, this historic catechism was frequently used to catechize congregations and children. Commonly attributed to Benjamin Keach, it is now thought likely compiled by William Collins. A Reformed Baptist catechism, it provides 118 questions and answers from Scripture, used to teach the basics of the faith. It holds to a Calvinistic principles, being similar to the Heidelberg Catechism and the Westminster Catechism, but altered in the sections on baptism.

Classic Baptist Books is an arm of The Roger Williams Heritage Archives, which is a ministry of Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Watertown, Wisconsin. The purpose of the Classic Baptist Books collection is to put into easy access Baptist works which either have gone out of print, are in print but difficult to obtain, or are of such significance that an electronically searchable edition offers significant benefits to the Baptist and even non-Baptist community.

The Classic Studies on the Parables of the Bible Collection offers some of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’ most significant studies on Jesus’ and the Old Testament’s parables—over 11,000 pages of research. From familiar authors such as A. C. Gaebelein, H. B. Swete, and A. B. Bruce, you’ll get the best in classic scholarship on some of the most important teachings on character, God, faith, and more. This collection contains a wide array of studies on the parables of the Bible, including resources for teaching the parables to youth, sermon structures for teaching the parables, Greek and Hebrew exegesis of Old Testament parables, and personal devotional application from the lessons of the parables. Whether you’re a pastor, scholar, or student, this collection will help you conduct research and give you practical advice.

The Baptist Covenant Theology Collection dives into seventeenth-and eighteenth-century covenant theology, emphasizing the implications God’s covenants with man have for modern-day believers, particularly regarding baptism. One of the largest divisions facing the Baptist church in the seventeenth century was the stance on paedobaptism.

Bolster your library with key texts in the Baptist tradition. Seventeenth-century Particular Baptist Benjamin Keach was a gifted pastor, writer, theologian, and pioneer in religious education. Walking the difficult line of nonconformity, Keach wrote a number of important works, though frequently persecuted—even once pilloried. This collection presents 10 texts that reflect the varied facets of Keach’s career and ministry.

Craft meaningful sermons with insights from the best preachers in history. This extensive collection assembles classic sermons from the fourth to the twentieth century, on both practical topics and doctrinal issues. Dozens of notable preachers are represented, from John Wycliffe to John Henry Newman, and George Whitefield to Dwight Moody. Delve into the messages they shared with the congregations they loved and discover priceless examples of preaching as an art.

With nearly 5,000 texts spanning from 1640 to 1800, this library comprises the foundational documents and publications of colonial and revolutionary-era American culture.

In The Marrow of True Justification Benjamin Keach defends the doctrine of justification by faith alone and not by works, responding to the controversy over this doctrine that was taking place during the end of the Puritan era. This work comprises two sermons on Romans 4:5, “wherein the nature of justification is opened as it hath been formerly asserted by all sound Protestants and the resent present prevailing errors against said doctrine detected.”

Enrich your study of early English history with over 25,000 historical documents and literary works. Spanning from the first works mass produced in English to the end of the seventeenth century, this collection provides insight into sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature, politics, and culture.

Originally written in 1701, this classic work has seen several reprinted versions in the nineteenth century and beyond. In this volume, Keach introduces each parable as a sermon, with lessons that help the reader find application. Keach’s thorough familiarity with Scripture shines in every page of this study as he compares epistle messages and Old Testament commands with the lessons of each parable, providing the reader wide and deep access to scriptural study surrounding the parables.

In Tropologia, one of Benjamin Keach’s most famous works, he provides a helpful guide to the various figures of speech used in Scripture, noting that the main scope of his work is “to offer some assistance towards the explaining and finding out the true sense and meaning of the Holy Scriptures.” First explaining and distinguishing various elements used—such as type, simile, metaphor, synecdoche, hyperbole, and parable—Keach aids readers in identifying these important literary devices, and unders...

These biblical sermons, from a variety of traditions and homiletic approaches, open up Scripture so you can see how centuries of preachers before you have handled the verse you’re studying or preparing to preach from. Featuring over one hundred preachers, this collection is the best library builder for sermons ever released. If you are searching for insights from the great preachers of history, either for personal growth or for inspiration in your own preaching, the Sermon Finder Collection is ideal for diving deep into thousand of expository and topical sermons.

This volume contains a sermon by Benjamin Keach on the distinction between the covenant of redemption and the covenant of grace. Keach critiques the arguments supporting this distinction. The text also includes an elegy for Pastor Henry Forty, who passed away four days earlier.

This volume contains 14 sermons by Benjamin Keach on the covenant of peace. Keach pays special attention to what he believed were the mistakes of his contemporaries regarding reconciliation and justification.

Volume 1 contains two sermons on Matthew 3:10, expanding upon the metaphor and applying it to both infant baptism and church membership. Volume 2 contains the second part of Benjamin Keach’s work on Matthew 3:10. The text offers further exposition of the metaphor, a reply to a treatise on paedobaptism, and Keach’s reflections on the work of Joshua Exell.

Particular Baptist preacher Benjamin Keach makes a case for believer’s baptism, using only full immersion as the biblical mode and expression of baptism. Keach examines the meaning of the word baptism and then unpacks the particulars of baptism, arguing in turn for its place in the Great Commission, for covering the whole body in water, and for baptizing only believing adults. Keach also provides extended examination and response to arguments for infant baptism.

In this brief treatise, based from Luke 16:31, Benjamin Keach argues for the authority and power of the Scriptures in bringing people to believe. He “endeavor[s] to prove from these words that the Holy Scriptures, in the ministration thereof, have fare more efficacy to bring men to believe and repent than immediate revelation or apparition from the dead.”

An important pioneer and outspoken advocate of the singing of hymns, as well as a collector of hymns, seventeenth-century Baptist preacher Benjamin Keach here presents songs of praise from the Old and New Testaments, along with “a hundred divine hymns on several occasions, as now practiced in several congregations in and about London.”

O propósito, função, disciplina e problemas da igreja local não mudaram desde que Benjamin Keach escreveu esta excelente obra no final do século XVII. É por isso que amo tanto este livro e o considero um recurso muito valioso para os cristãos de hoje. Keach acreditava que a igreja é bela e que a sua membresia deve ser levada a sério. Concordo com ele! Minha oração é que todos os verdadeiros cristãos cheguem a ver a glória de uma igreja verdadeira. Dr. Jeffrey D. Johnson Pastor da Grace Bible Church. Conway, Arkansas, EUA. Autor de A Igreja: Sua Natureza, Autoridade, Propósito e Culto? (O Estandarte de Cristo, 2020)

Benjamin Keach creatively explores the maturing believer’s battle with sin and corruption through a poetic dialogue between youth and conscience. In the course of this work, he examines the “power of corruption, and the nature of true conversion, in all its various progressive steps.”

The Logos 8 Baptist Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Logos 8. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with study Bible notes, Bible dictionaries, devotionals, and a few key commentaries. The Logos 8 Baptist Diamond Legacy Library provides essential resources for anyone just getting started with serious Bible study.

Benjamin Keach examines “the glory of God’s rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners” in a collection of sermons on four passages of Scripture, covering various topics.

These biblical sermons, from a variety of traditions and homiletic approaches, open up Scripture so you can see how centuries of preachers before you have handled the verse you’re studying or preparing to preach from. Featuring over one hundred preachers, this collection is the best library builder for sermons ever released. If you are searching for insights from the great preachers of history, either for personal growth or for inspiration in your own preaching, the Sermon Finder Collection is ideal for diving deep into thousands of expository and topical sermons.

Particular Baptist preacher Benjamin Keach examines destructive the power of sin and the path of disobedience to God in allegorical form. As with his earlier The Travels of True Godliness—in which he presents an allegorical personification of godliness and its enemies—this text presents a personified ungodliness to explore “the great victories he hath obtained, and abominable evils he hath done to mankind by the help of the devil in all his travels from the beginning of the world to this very da...