Preaching from the Types and Metaphors of the Bible

by Benjamin Keach

Originally titled " A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors," this priceless classic is organized as Divine Authority of the Holy ScripturesBook 1. Philologia Sacra; or Their Proper Heads and Classes, With a Brief Explication of EachPart IPart IIOf TypesOf ParablesBook 2. Metaphors, Allegories, Similes, Types, Etc., Respecting the Members of the TrinityGod the Father, the First Person in the TrinityThe Second Person in the Glorious TrinityThe Third Person of the Blessed TrinityBook 3. Metaphors, Allegories, Similes, Types, Etc., That Relate to the Most Sacred Word of GodBook 4. Metaphors, Allegories, Similies, Types, Etc., Respecting Grace and the Blessed Ordinances of the GospelGraceBaptismThe Lord’s SupperThe Holy Angels of GodThe Soul and Spirit of ManThe Church of GodMen in GeneralThe SaintsWicked MenTrue Ministers of the GospelFalse Teachers and ChurchesSin and the DevilThe DevilThe Means of GraceAfflictionThe End of the WorldThe and Death Life of ManThe Resurrection and the Life to ComeHellTypes of the Old Testament Explained

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First published June 30, 1972

About the author

Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was a Particular Baptist preacher in London whose name was given to Keach’s Catechism.

Originally from Buckinghamshire, Keach worked as a tailor during his early years. He was baptized at the age of 15 and began preaching at 18. He was the minister of the congregation at Winslow before moving in 1668 to the church at Horse-lie-down, Southwark where he remained for 36 years as pastor (1668-1704). This congregation later became the New Park Street Church and then moved to the Metropolitan Tabernacle under the pastorship of Charles Spurgeon. It was as representative of this church that Keach went to the 1689 General Assembly and subscribed the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. Keach was one of the seven men who sent out the invitation to the 1689 General Assembly. The signing of the confession was no mute doctrinal assent on the part of the church, for in the same year they entered into a Solemn Covenant which reflected, at the practical and congregational level, some of the doctrines of the confession. There was a secession from Horse-lie-down in 1673 and the Old Kent Road congregation was formed. Spurgeon later republished the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith for use in the congregation.

Keach wrote 43 works, of which his “Parables and Metaphors of Scripture” may be the best known. He wrote a work entitled “The Child’s Instructor” which immediately brought him under persecution and he was fined and pilloried in 1664. He is attributed with the writing of a catechism commonly known as “Keach’s Catechism”, although it is most likely that the original was compiled by William Collins. (From The Digital Puritan)