Benjamin Keach
British writer and theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Keach was an English Reformed Baptist preacher and author whose name was given to Keach's Catechism. Biography Keach was born on 29 February 1640 to John and Fedora Keeche at Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire. His parents were poor. Keach worked as a tailor during his early years. He was baptized at the age of 15 by John Russell, the minister of an Arminian Baptist church at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. In 1659, at the age of 18, Keach began preaching, and was the minister of the congregation at Winslow. The next year, the Stuart Restoration returned Charles II to the throne of England, and in the years that followed, the penal laws proscribed Protestant nonconformity. In 1664, Keach was arrested and indicted for publishing a children's catechism, The Child's Instructor. The Instructor, since lost, was alleged to be schismatical. In October, he was tried in Aylesbury before Sir Robert Hyde, and was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment, fined twenty pounds, and on two days was pilloried for several hours in Aylesbury and Winslow.
