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A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism

1752 · 114 entries

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By

Benjamin Beddome

Dates

first published 1752

Tradition

baptist, reformed

Also called

A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism; by Way of Question and Answer; Beddome’s Exposition

Follows

A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism, by Way of Question and Answer. By Benjamin Beddome, M.A. With an Introduction, by J. L. Reynolds, Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Harrold & Murray’s printing, 1849 (University of Virginia Library’s copy, digitized by Google) (Richmond) · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org

Transcribed

From a source not recordedChecked against a copy at archive.org: which printing it follows, by the scan’s OCR (3,975 of its 4,420 questions and verses of 25 letters or more are in it, the rest mostly the OCR’s misreadings, or broken by a page’s running head); not word by word, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-29Checked against the scan: the preface, word by word, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-29

License

Public domain

Notes

Benjamin Beddome (1717–1795), Baptist minister at Bourton-on-the-Water, wrote it at his friends’ urging, “in imitation of Mr. Henry’s” (henry1703), his preface (prose/preface, dated 27 February 1752) says: he breaks each answer of the Baptist Catechism (bc1695) into short questions answered Yes or No, each proved by the words of a verse and its reference. The first edition (London: John Ward, 1752) is the British Library’s copy at Google Books; the second, corrected (Bristol: W. Pine, 1776), is on archive.org (bim_eighteenth-century_a-scriptural-exposition-_beddome-benjamin_1776_3). This text follows neither, but the American edition of 1849, with J. L. Reynolds’s introduction (left out here): its “call the sabbath honorable and honor him” (question 65) is 1849’s, where 1776 has “honourable and honour”. In places its spelling is modern where 1849’s isn’t (“practiced” for “practised”, “installment” for “instalment”). Each entry is one of the catechism’s questions; the printing’s question and answer at its head, the catechism’s own, are left out. Each paragraph (marked § in the printing) is an item, its first question, with the paragraph’s other questions under it; each answer (“Yes.”, “No.”) is a segment, and the verse that proves it another, its reference the proofs, as Isaiah 44:6 for the printing’s “Isa. xliv. 6.”; its six footnotes are those segments’ notes. Who made the text, and from what, is unknown: it came into this repository in July 2026, as bc1695’s beddome/, and has not been proofread against the scan. Its references are as it had them, and some were misread from the printing’s: “Psa. cx. 1.” is “Exodus 1” in questions 9 and 31, and twelve name only a chapter; and some sixty name a verse other than the one whose words are quoted (“My counsel shall stand”, Isaiah 46:10, is “Isaiah 45:10” in question 11), whether by the printing’s slips or the transcription’s isn’t known. /api/v1 answers it as bc1695’s expositions too, the shape it had there; the scan is Google’s, of the University of Virginia’s copy, also at Google Books.

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The Baptist Catechism (1695)

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