{"id":25005,"date":"2025-05-29T11:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25005"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:01:49","slug":"reformed-baptists-stumbling-over-the-teachings-of-keach-and-gill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/05\/reformed-baptists-stumbling-over-the-teachings-of-keach-and-gill\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformed Baptists Stumbling Over The Teachings Of Keach And Gill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Masters believes Benjamin Keach and John Gill collapsed the Covenant of Redemption into the \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace, thereby combining the various components of each covenant into one. Samuel Renihan believes Keach rejected the Covenant of Redemption in favor of the \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace. I have met Reformed Baptists believing one or the other of these views, some of whom say they derive great benefit, especially from the teachings of Gill. However, neither of these views represent the teachings of Keach and Gill, and therefore it is questionable what type of benefit one has received from their writings if they have been misinterpreted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keach and Gill out-right rejected the \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace in favor of the Covenant of Redemption. Forthwith, the doctrines of duty-faith and the free-offer, both of which depend upon a \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace, were dismissed as having no place within the covenantal framework or biblical narrative. Keach and Gill\u2019s covenantal framework became the dominant view among the Particular Baptists and other denominations during the 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise Peter Masters and Samuel Renihan have attempted to cling on to their \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace when interpreting Keach and Gill, for if they let it go, they lose with it not only two stalwarts of the faith, but also their man-centered doctrines of duty-faith and the free-offer. My dear friends, we must exercise discernment in all matters, especially when there are so many conflicting views swirling around. Just because one advertises his\/her subscription to a twofold covenantal framework does not mean he\/she represents the teachings of Keach and Gill. Masters certainly doesn\u2019t. These men speak for themselves quite clearly on the subject and therefore I invite you to examine their teachings for yourself, rather than relying on someone else\u2019s interpretation (misinterpretation) of their views.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25005\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"3\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Masters believes Benjamin Keach and John Gill collapsed the Covenant of Redemption into the \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace, thereby combining the various components of each covenant into one. Samuel Renihan believes Keach rejected the Covenant of Redemption in favor of the \u201cconditional\u201d Covenant of Grace. I have met Reformed Baptists believing one or the other of these views, some of whom say they derive great benefit, especially from the teachings of Gill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[1232,1210,1198,1199,1201,1202,1203,1204],"class_list":["post-25005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jared-smiths-bits-and-pieces","tag-baptist-history","tag-confessions","tag-duty-faith","tag-free-offer","tag-fullerism","tag-hyper-calvinism","tag-moderate-calvinism","tag-reformed-baptists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25006,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25005\/revisions\/25006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}