Baptist Catechism of 1693 · Question 5

May all men make use of the holy scriptures?

All men are not only permitted, but commanded and exhorted to read, hear, and understand the holy scriptures.

John 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
John 17:17-18 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Acts 8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

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
Original URL: baptistcatechism.org/
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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