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Baptist Catechism of 1693

Note. Scripture proofs show the King James text; a few whole-chapter references are given without text. This is the original 1693–1695 catechism. Charles Spurgeon’s later edition, which follows the Westminster Shorter Catechism more closely, is a different text.
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  1. 1 Who is the first and chiefest being?
  2. 2 Ought everyone to believe there is a God?
  3. 3 How may we know there is a God?
  4. 4 What is the word of God?
  5. 5 May all men make use of the holy scriptures?
  6. 6 What things are chiefly contained in the holy scriptures?
  7. 7 What is God?
  8. 8 Are there more gods than one?
  9. 9 How many persons are there in the Godhead?
  10. 10 What are the decrees of God?
  11. 11 How doth God execute his decrees?
  12. 12 What is the work of creation?
  13. 13 How did God create man?
  14. 14 What are God’s works of providence?
  15. 15 What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
  16. 16 Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
  17. 17 What is sin?
  18. 18 What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
  19. 19 Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
  20. 20 Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
  21. 21 Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
  22. 22 What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
  23. 23 Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
  24. 24 Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
  25. 25 How did Christ, being the Son of God become man?
  26. 26 What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
  27. 27 How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
  28. 28 How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
  29. 29 How doth Christ execute the office of king?
  30. 30 Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
  31. 31 Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
  32. 32 How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
  33. 33 How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
  34. 34 What is effectual calling?
  35. 35 What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
  36. 36 What is justification?
  37. 37 What is adoption?
  38. 38 What is sanctification?
  39. 39 What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?
  40. 40 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
  41. 41 What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
  42. 42 But what shall be done to the wicked at their death?
  43. 43 What shall be done to the wicked, at the day of judgment?
  44. 44 What is the duty which God requireth of man?
  45. 45 What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
  46. 46 Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
  47. 47 What is the sum of the ten commandments?
  48. 48 What is the preface to the ten commandments?
  49. 49 What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
  50. 50 Which is the first commandment?
  51. 51 What is required in the first commandment?
  52. 52 What is forbidden in the first commandment?
  53. 53 What are we especially taught by these words before me, in the first commandment?
  54. 54 Which is the second commandment?
  55. 55 What is required in the second commandment?
  56. 56 What is forbidden in the second commandment?
  57. 57 What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
  58. 58 Which is the third commandment?
  59. 59 What is required in the third commandment?
  60. 60 What is forbidden in the third commandment?
  61. 61 What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
  62. 62 What is the fourth commandment?
  63. 63 What is required in the fourth commandment?
  64. 64 Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly Sabbath?
  65. 65 How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?
  66. 66 What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
  67. 67 What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
  68. 68 Which is the fifth commandment?
  69. 69 What is required in the fifth commandment?
  70. 70 What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
  71. 71 What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
  72. 72 What is the sixth commandment?
  73. 73 What is required in the sixth commandment?
  74. 74 What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
  75. 75 Which is the seventh commandment?
  76. 76 What is required in the seventh commandment?
  77. 77 What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
  78. 78 Which is the eighth commandment?
  79. 79 What is required in the eighth commandment?
  80. 80 What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
  81. 81 Which is the ninth commandment?
  82. 82 What is required in the ninth commandment?
  83. 83 What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
  84. 84 Which is the tenth commandment?
  85. 85 What is required in the tenth commandment?
  86. 86 What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
  87. 87 Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
  88. 88 Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
  89. 89 What doth every sin deserve?
  90. 90 What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
  91. 91 What is faith in Jesus Christ?
  92. 92 What is repentance unto life?
  93. 93 What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
  94. 94 How is the word made effectual to salvation?
  95. 95 How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
  96. 96 How do baptism and the Lord’s supper become effectual means of salvation?
  97. 97 What is baptism?
  98. 98 To whom is baptism to be administered?
  99. 99 Are the infants of such as are professing believers to be baptized?
  100. 100 How is Baptism rightly administered?
  101. 101 What is the duty of such who are rightly baptized?
  102. 102 What is the Lord’s supper?
  103. 103 Who are the proper subjects of this ordinance?
  104. 104 What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper?
  105. 105 What is prayer?
  106. 106 What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
  107. 107 What doth the preface of the Lord’s prayer teach us?
  108. 108 What do we pray for in the first petition?
  109. 109 What do we pray for in the second petition?
  110. 110 What do we pray for in the third petition?
  111. 111 What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
  112. 112 What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
  113. 113 What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
  114. 114 What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s prayer teach us?

Edition & Source Public domain

Source
The Baptist Catechism (Keach’s Catechism)
Translation
Original English, spelling lightly modernized; Scripture proofs: King James Version
Published
1693; text of the 1695 fifth edition
Copyright
Public domain.
License
Public domain
Attribution
Public domain: published before 1931. Text taken from baptistcatechism.org, which uses the oldest known copy (the 1695 fifth edition). The other online text I found (reformedreader.org) is the Spurgeon-era version, a different wording, so it could not be used to check this one. Not yet proofread against a scanned original. Scripture proof texts are the King James Version, from the public-domain Project Gutenberg edition, added with tools/add_kjv.py. A few references could not be matched to verses (whole-chapter references such as ‘Genesis 1 throughout’, and typing slips in the source) and are shown without text.

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