1814 BENJAMIN BEDDOME. A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism.

Benjamin Beddome [1717-1795] was an influential English Particular Baptist minister and hymn writer. All works by him are scarce. This appears to be the sole American imprint, issued at a particularly interesting time for American Baptists. With the conversion of Adoniram Judson and the Burmah missionaries, the 1810’s was a significant period of growth. This perhaps issued to quickly “arm” new Baptists to stay attempts at bringing them back into the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian folds. Beddome Henley-in-Arden, England, and was the son of Baptist minister John Beddome. The family later moved to Bristol, where Beddome was originally apprenticed to a surgeon. At the end of his apprenticeship, he decided instead to pursue theological education with the intention of becoming a Christian minister. He studied initially under Bernard Foskett at the Baptist College in Bristol, where he became friends with Particular Baptist, John Ash. He was at long last baptized at the Baptist ch