Alleine, Joseph 1634 - 1668
Joseph Alleine (April 8, 1634 - 17 November 1668) was an English Puritan Nonconformist pastor and author.
Alleine belonged to a family that had originally settled in Suffolk. As early as 1430 some of the descendants of Alan, lord of Buckenhall settled in the neighborhood of Calne and Devizes. These were the immediate ancestors of worthy Mr Tobie Alleine of Devizes, father of Joseph. Joseph was the fourth of a large family, born at Devizes early in 1634. 1645 is marked in the title-page of a quaint old tractate, by an eye-witness, as the year of his setting forth in the Christian race. His elder brother Edward had been a clergyman, but in this year died; and Joseph entreated his father that he might be educated to succeed his brother in the ministry.
In April 1649 he entered Lincoln College, Oxford, and on November 3, 1651, he became scholar of Corpus Christi College. On July 6, 1653, he took the degree of B.D., and became a tutor and chaplain of Corpus Christi, preferring this to a fellowship. In 1654 he had offers of high preferment in the state, which he declined; but in 1655 George Newton, of the great church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, sought him for assistant and Alleine accepted the invitation. Almost coincident with his ordination as associate pastor came his marriage with Theodosia Alleine, daughter of Richard Alleine. Friendships among gentle and simple of the former, with Lady Farewell, granddaughter of the protector Somerset bear witness to the attraction of Alleine's private life.
His public life was a model of pastoral devotion, yet he found time to continue his studies, one monument of which was his Theologia Philosophica (a lost MS.), a learned attempt to harmonize revelation and nature, which was admired by Richard Baxter. Alleine was no mere scholar or divine, but a man who associated on equal terms with the founders of the Royal Society. These scientific studies were, however, kept in subordination to his proper work. He was surprisingly influential for so young a man, and this was thanks to his earnestness and forcefulness.
The year 1662 found senior and junior pastors like-minded, and both were among the two thousand ejected ministers. Alleine, with John Wesley (grandfather of the celebrated John Wesley), also ejected, then travelled about, preaching wherever opportunity was found. For this he was cast into prison, indicted at sessions, bullied and fined. His Letters from Prison were an earlier Cardiphonia than John Newton's. He was released on May 26, 1664; and in spite of the Conventicle, or Five Mile Act, he resumed his preaching. He found himself again in prison, and again and again a sufferer.
Worn out by the continued persecution, he died in November 1668; and the mourners, remembering their beloved minister's words while yet with them, If I should die fifty miles away, let me be buried at Taunton, found a grave for him in St Mary's chancel. No Puritan nonconformist name is so affectionately cherished as is that of Joseph Alleine. His chief literary work was An Alarm to the Unconverted (1672), otherwise known as The Sure Guide to Heaven, which had an enormous circulation. His Remains appeared in 1674.
Alleine belonged to a family that had originally settled in Suffolk. As early as 1430 some of the descendants of Alan, lord of Buckenhall settled in the neighborhood of Calne and Devizes. These were the immediate ancestors of worthy Mr Tobie Alleine of Devizes, father of Joseph. Joseph was the fourth of a large family, born at Devizes early in 1634. 1645 is marked in the title-page of a quaint old tractate, by an eye-witness, as the year of his setting forth in the Christian race. His elder brother Edward had been a clergyman, but in this year died; and Joseph entreated his father that he might be educated to succeed his brother in the ministry.
In April 1649 he entered Lincoln College, Oxford, and on November 3, 1651, he became scholar of Corpus Christi College. On July 6, 1653, he took the degree of B.D., and became a tutor and chaplain of Corpus Christi, preferring this to a fellowship. In 1654 he had offers of high preferment in the state, which he declined; but in 1655 George Newton, of the great church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, sought him for assistant and Alleine accepted the invitation. Almost coincident with his ordination as associate pastor came his marriage with Theodosia Alleine, daughter of Richard Alleine. Friendships among gentle and simple of the former, with Lady Farewell, granddaughter of the protector Somerset bear witness to the attraction of Alleine's private life.
His public life was a model of pastoral devotion, yet he found time to continue his studies, one monument of which was his Theologia Philosophica (a lost MS.), a learned attempt to harmonize revelation and nature, which was admired by Richard Baxter. Alleine was no mere scholar or divine, but a man who associated on equal terms with the founders of the Royal Society. These scientific studies were, however, kept in subordination to his proper work. He was surprisingly influential for so young a man, and this was thanks to his earnestness and forcefulness.
The year 1662 found senior and junior pastors like-minded, and both were among the two thousand ejected ministers. Alleine, with John Wesley (grandfather of the celebrated John Wesley), also ejected, then travelled about, preaching wherever opportunity was found. For this he was cast into prison, indicted at sessions, bullied and fined. His Letters from Prison were an earlier Cardiphonia than John Newton's. He was released on May 26, 1664; and in spite of the Conventicle, or Five Mile Act, he resumed his preaching. He found himself again in prison, and again and again a sufferer.
Worn out by the continued persecution, he died in November 1668; and the mourners, remembering their beloved minister's words while yet with them, If I should die fifty miles away, let me be buried at Taunton, found a grave for him in St Mary's chancel. No Puritan nonconformist name is so affectionately cherished as is that of Joseph Alleine. His chief literary work was An Alarm to the Unconverted (1672), otherwise known as The Sure Guide to Heaven, which had an enormous circulation. His Remains appeared in 1674.
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Works
Joseph Alleine's Alarme went through numerous editions and abridgements across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; versions appeared in Welsh and German, and were published in Scotland and North America. It was also an important text to John Wesley, abridged and printed by him, and sold through Methodist catalogues and booksellers. Some of the most important editions are listed below, together with Alleine's other published works (mostly posthumous).
A Call to Archippus, [London: s.n.], 1664
An Alarme to Unconverted Sinners, London, 1672
Divers Practical Cases of conscience, Satisfactorily Resolved, London, 1672
A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism, London, 1672
Mr. Joseph Alleines Directions, for Covenanting vvith God, London, 1674
Remaines, London, 1674
The True Way to Happiness, London, 1675
A Sure Guide to Heaven: or An Earnest Invitation to Sinners to Turn to God, London, 1688
Hyfforddwr Cyfarwydd I'r Nefoedd, London, 1693
Christian Letters Full of Spiritual Instructions, London, [1700?]
Mr. Joseph Alleine's Rules for Self-Examination, Boston, [174-?]
The Saint's Pocket-Book, Glasgow, 1742
The Works of the Truly Pious and Learned Mr Joseph Allan, Edinburgh, 1752
Useful Questions, Whereby a Person may Examine himself Every Day, Philadelphia, 1753
The Shorter Catechism Agreed Upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster. To Which is Added, Some Serious Questions very Proper for True Christians to Ask Themselves Every Day, by the Late Reverend Mr.Joseph Allaine. Also a Cradle Hymn, by the Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts, New-London, 1754
The Voice of God in His Promises, London, 1766
The Believer's Triumph in God's Promises, London, 1767
A Remedy of God's Own Providing for a Sinner's Guilty Conscience, [London?, 1770?]
An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners, (London, 1771)
Earail Shurachdach Do Pheacaich Neo-Iompaichte, Dunedin, 1781
An Abridgement of Alleine's Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, London, 1783
Joseph Alleins Grundlegung zum thatigen Christenthum, Lancaster, 1797
An Earnest Invitation to the Reader to Turn to God, Grantham, 1799
Joseph Alleine's Alarme went through numerous editions and abridgements across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; versions appeared in Welsh and German, and were published in Scotland and North America. It was also an important text to John Wesley, abridged and printed by him, and sold through Methodist catalogues and booksellers. Some of the most important editions are listed below, together with Alleine's other published works (mostly posthumous).
A Call to Archippus, [London: s.n.], 1664
An Alarme to Unconverted Sinners, London, 1672
Divers Practical Cases of conscience, Satisfactorily Resolved, London, 1672
A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism, London, 1672
Mr. Joseph Alleines Directions, for Covenanting vvith God, London, 1674
Remaines, London, 1674
The True Way to Happiness, London, 1675
A Sure Guide to Heaven: or An Earnest Invitation to Sinners to Turn to God, London, 1688
Hyfforddwr Cyfarwydd I'r Nefoedd, London, 1693
Christian Letters Full of Spiritual Instructions, London, [1700?]
Mr. Joseph Alleine's Rules for Self-Examination, Boston, [174-?]
The Saint's Pocket-Book, Glasgow, 1742
The Works of the Truly Pious and Learned Mr Joseph Allan, Edinburgh, 1752
Useful Questions, Whereby a Person may Examine himself Every Day, Philadelphia, 1753
The Shorter Catechism Agreed Upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster. To Which is Added, Some Serious Questions very Proper for True Christians to Ask Themselves Every Day, by the Late Reverend Mr.Joseph Allaine. Also a Cradle Hymn, by the Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts, New-London, 1754
The Voice of God in His Promises, London, 1766
The Believer's Triumph in God's Promises, London, 1767
A Remedy of God's Own Providing for a Sinner's Guilty Conscience, [London?, 1770?]
An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners, (London, 1771)
Earail Shurachdach Do Pheacaich Neo-Iompaichte, Dunedin, 1781
An Abridgement of Alleine's Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, London, 1783
Joseph Alleins Grundlegung zum thatigen Christenthum, Lancaster, 1797
An Earnest Invitation to the Reader to Turn to God, Grantham, 1799
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An account of the life and death of that excellent minister of Christ, the Rev. Joseph Alleine. Written by Richard Baxter, Theodosia Alleine, and other persons, to which are added his Christian lelters (1815)
An alarm to unconverted sinners (1824)
I. What conversion is not, and correcting some mistakes about it;
II. What conversion is and wherein it consisteth;
III. The necessity of conversion
IV. The marks of the unconverted;
V. The miseries of the unconverted;
VI. Directions for conversion;
VII. Motives to conversion
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AUDIO SERMON
An Alarm to the Unconverted 1 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading # 1: Introduction: Mistakes about Conversion: The Nature of Conversion.
An Alarm to the Unconverted 1 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading # 1: Introduction: Mistakes about Conversion: The Nature of Conversion.
AUDIO SERMON
An Alarm to the Unconverted 2 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #2: The Necessity of Conversion: The Marks of the Unconverted.
An Alarm to the Unconverted 2 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #2: The Necessity of Conversion: The Marks of the Unconverted.
AUDIO SERMON
An Alarm to the Unconverted 3 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #3: Miseries of the Unconverted.
An Alarm to the Unconverted 3 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #3: Miseries of the Unconverted.
AUDIO SERMON
An Alarm to the Unconverted 4 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #4: Directions to the Unconverted: The Motives To Conversion.
An Alarm to the Unconverted 4 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #4: Directions to the Unconverted: The Motives To Conversion.
AUDIO SERMON
An Alarm to the Unconverted 5 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #5: Conclusion.
An Alarm to the Unconverted 5 of 5 by Joseph Alleine
Description: The fire of God was in the bones of young Joseph Alleine. His preaching and his prayers dripped with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Alleine's words in this book mirror his message to the unconverted. Reading #5: Conclusion.
Other audio on the same topic by other readers: (here)
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Alleine on the promises; containing the voice of the herald, before the great King; the voice of God speaking from Mount Gerizim; being a short view of the great and precious promises of the gospel, &c (1828)
The saints pocket book; being a short view of the great and precious Promises of the Gospel. (1866)
The Believer's Triumph in god's Promises; and the Various Conflicts and Glorious Conquests of Faith over Unbelief: Being an appendix to the Voice of God in His Promises (begins on page 213) - 1824
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