In a beautiful scene representing Christian marriage in ministry, Jane Keach stands before her husband defending him and his ministry while he remained in the stocks. The crowd even claimed that she gave him a bible by which he used to preach from the pillory. This scene is depicted in the image above where Jane can be seen holding the bible before him – as if to serve as his pulpit.
Though Keach would defend her, claiming to have brought it himself, the assumption made by the crowd (that this was of her doing) provides evidence of just how important her presence was in this scene.
The two ministered as one – even under persecution.
Image taken from: Thomas Crosby, The History of the English Baptists, from the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of King George I, (London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Robinson, 1738), p. 206.
Image above taken from C. H. Spurgeon (Ed.) The Sword and the Trowel 1866, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, Paternoster Row, 1866), p. 29.
Note, in Spurgeon’s image, Jane can be scene on the platform alongside her husband standing in his defence.
Benjamin Keach Journal 
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