Benjamin Keach · 1693
The Baptist Catechism
The Baptist Catechism, commonly known as Keach's Catechism, was commissioned in 1693 by the Baptists who gathered at the London General Assembly as a companion to the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689). This site uses the text of the 5th edition (1695).
Text from baptistcatechism.org (CC0 public domain).
Introduction: God and the Scriptures
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
- 7What is God?
- 8Are there more gods than one?
- 9How many persons are there in the Godhead?
- 10What are the decrees of God?
- 11How doth God execute his decrees?
- 12What is the work of creation?
- 13How did God create man?
- 14What are God's works of providence?
- 15What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
- 16Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
- 17What is sin?
- 18What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
- 19Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
- 20Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- 21Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
- 22What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
- 23Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- 24Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
- 25How did Christ, being the Son of God become man?
- 26What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
- 27How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
- 28How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
- 29How doth Christ execute the office of king?
- 30Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
- 31Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?
- 32How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
- 33How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
- 34What is effectual calling?
- 35What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
- 36What is justification?
- 37What is adoption?
- 38What is sanctification?
- 39What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
- 40What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?
- 41What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
- 42But what shall be done to the wicked at their death?
- 43What shall be done to the wicked, at the day of judgment?
The Duty God Requires of Man
- 44What is the duty which God requireth of man?
- 45What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
- 46Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
- 47What is the sum of the ten commandments?
- 48What is the preface to the ten commandments?
- 49What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
- 50Which is the first commandment?
- 51What is required in the first commandment?
- 52What is forbidden in the first commandment?
- 53What are we especially taught by these words before me, in the first commandment?
- 54Which is the second commandment?
- 55What is required in the second commandment?
- 56What is forbidden in the second commandment?
- 57What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
- 58Which is the third commandment?
- 59What is required in the third commandment?
- 60What is forbidden in the third commandment?
- 61What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
- 62What is the fourth commandment?
- 63What is required in the fourth commandment?
- 64Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
- 65How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
- 66What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
- 67What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
- 68Which is the fifth commandment?
- 69What is required in the fifth commandment?
- 70What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
- 71What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
- 72What is the sixth commandment?
- 73What is required in the sixth commandment?
- 74What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
- 75Which is the seventh commandment?
- 76What is required in the seventh commandment?
- 77What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
- 78Which is the eighth commandment?
- 79What is required in the eighth commandment?
- 80What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
- 81Which is the ninth commandment?
- 82What is required in the ninth commandment?
- 83What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
- 84Which is the tenth commandment?
- 85What is required in the tenth commandment?
- 86What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
- 87Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
The Gospel and the Means of Grace
- 88Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
- 89What doth every sin deserve?
- 90What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
- 91What is faith in Jesus Christ?
- 92What is repentance unto life?
- 93What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
- 94How is the word made effectual to salvation?
- 95How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
- 96How do baptism and the Lord's supper become effectual means of salvation?
- 97What is baptism?
- 98To whom is baptism to be administered?
- 99Are the infants of such as are professing believers to be baptized?
- 100How is Baptism rightly administered?
- 101What is the duty of such who are rightly baptized?
- 102What is the Lord's supper?
- 103Who are the proper subjects of this ordinance?
- 104What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper?
- 105What is prayer?
- 106What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
- 107What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?
- 108What do we pray for in the first petition?
- 109What do we pray for in the second petition?
- 110What do we pray for in the third petition?
- 111What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
- 112What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
- 113What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
- 114What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer teach?