Baptist Catechism
The Baptist Catechism was originally commissioned by the London General Assembly and assigned to William Collins in 1693.[1] The earliest appearance of the catechism was in 1695 but already labeled as the 5th edition. There is very little evidence that Benjamin Keach was involved in the authoring of this catechism, however in the mid 18th Century, his name and picture was added to the catechism when printed. This may be due to an advertisement which appeared in 1719 with the 4th printing of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith, in which the rights to print the catechism were sold to John Marshall, a bookseller, by William Collins and Benjamin Keach.[1] As Samuel Renihan's research shows, this is probably a repeat of an earlier advertisement indicating the transfer of rights occurred around 1699, most likely.
