Several Scripture Songs taken out of the Old and New-Testament. With some other Spiritual Songs; &c.CrossReach Publications

The Editor hopes he has rendered an acceptable service to the religious public, by bringing forth from almost entire oblivion, this small but admirable treatise. The strenuous efforts of Authors and Publishers to attract attention to new works, and the necessarily greater interest we feel in the present than in the past, combine to throw the books of former years into increasing obscurity. Though books abound in every department of knowledge or piety, yet those of a proper kind do not abou...

The Editor hopes he has rendered an acceptable service to the religious public, by bringing forth from almost entire oblivion, this small but admirable treatise. The strenuous efforts of Authors and Publishers to attract attention to new works, and the necessarily greater interest we feel in the present than in the past, combine to throw the books of former years into increasing obscurity. Though books abound in every department of knowledge or piety, yet those of a proper kind do not abou...

The officers who were sent to take or apprehend our blessed Lord, being demanded why they had not brought him, answered, “Never man spake like this man;” that is, as to the matter or depth of divine wisdom, and with that authority and evidence of truth. But when we consider that almost all which our Lord spake to the multitude, he spake in parables, (and in them being hid the rich treasure of his heavenly doctrine, or such things that had been kept secret from the foundation of the world, ...

Christian Reader,I Having written a small Treatise, entituled The Travels of True Godliness which (as I hear) hath found a kind Acceptance amongst all sorts of Protestants, whether Conformists, or Nonconformists, so I hear this hath met with the like; the sole or main Design of it being to beat down Sin, by setting forth the abominable Nature and Evil thereof; together with the Wiles and subtil Stratagems of the Devil, to deceive the Souls of Men. I have in it made use of the same ...

Benjamin Keach (29 February 1640 – 18 July 1704) was a Particular Baptist preacher and author in London whose name was given to Keach's Catechism.Often in prison and frequently in danger for preaching the Gospel, he was the first to introduce singing hymns in the worship of English congregations. "While The Pilgrim's Progress is the most famous of the Christian journey allegories of the seventeenth century, it is not the only one. Though nearly forgotten today, Benjamin Keach's 'Th...

THE officers who were sent to take or apprehend our blessed Lord, being demanded why they had not brought him, answered, “Never man spake like this man;” that is, as to the matter or depth of divine wisdom, and with that authority and evidence of truth. But when we consider that almost all which our Lord spake to the multitude, he spake in parables, (and in them being hid the rich treasure of his heavenly doctrine, or such things that had been kept secret from the foundation of the world, ...

In the year 1677, a Confession of Faith was published by the Baptists, in London and vicinity. This Confession of Faith was reprinted in the year 1689, having been approved and recommended by the Ministers and Messengers of above an hundred congregations in England and Wales—signed by Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, Benjamin Keach, and others.The present Catechism was prepared by Benjamin Keach, agreeably to this Confession of Faith, with the following Preface:To the Reader:...

Spiritual SONGS:BEING THEMarrow of the Scripture,INSONGS of PRAISETOAlmighty GOD;FROMThe Old and New TestamentWITHA Hundred Divine HYMNS on several Occasions: As now Practised in several Congregations in and about London.The Second Edition;With a TABLE of ContentsBy BENJAMIN KEACH, Author of The War with the DevilEPH. V. 19. COL. III. 16LONDON:Printed for John Marshal, at the Bib...

A metaphor in which True Godliness attempts to win various characters in his way.

In the year 1677, a Confession of Faith was published by the Baptists, in London and vicinity. This Confession of Faith was reprinted in the year 1689, having been approved and recommended by the Ministers and Messengers of above an hundred congregations in England and Wales—signed by Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, Benjamin Keach, and others. The present Catechism was prepared by Benjamin Keach, agreeably to this Confession of Faith, with the following Preface: TO THE READER. Having a de...

The Progress of SIN,OR THETRAVELSOFUngodlinessWherein the Pedigree, Rise, (or Original) Antiquity, Subtilty, Evil Nature, and prevailing Power of SIN is fully discover’d; In an Apt and PleasantALLEGORY:Together with 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 Day.As also the Manner of his Apprehension Arra...