The Life and Death of Joseph Alleine, Table of contents – Biography
THE Life and Death of Mr. JOSEPH ALLEINE, Late Teacher of the Church at Taunton, in Sommersetshire, Assistant to Mr. Newton.
Whereunto are Annexed Diverse Christian LETTERS Of His, Full of Spiritual Instructions tending to the Promoting of the power of Godliness, both in Persons, and Families.
AND HIS FUNERAL SERMON Preached by Mr. Newton.
LOFDON, Printed for Nevil Simmon, at the Princes-Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1672.
The Contents.
CHAP. I. THE Introduction, by Mr. Richard Baxter,
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CHAP. II. A brief Relation of his early setting forth in the Christian Race from his Childhood; and some Memorials of his first beginnings, and earnest pursuit of Learning in the University. Written by an eye-witness thereof,
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CHAP. III. A brief Character of him, by Mr. Richard Alleine, shewing how eminently he was qualified for the Ministerial service and warfare whereunto he was called,
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CHAP. IV. An account of his godly Life and Practice, and of the course of his Ministry in Taunton; given by Mr. George Newton, the Reverend Pastor there, whose Assistant he was,
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CHAP. V. A further Account of his Ministry, by way of Supplement to the former: By one of his Fellow-Labourers, who was his intimate Friend,
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CHAP. VI. A full Narrative of his Life from his silencing to his Death; by his Widow, Mr. Theodosia Alleine, in her own words: Wherein is notably set forth with what patience he ran the Race that was set before him, and fulfilled the Ministry that he had received in the Lord,
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CHAP. VII. Some Notes by another, whose House he lodged in,
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CHAP. VIII. An intire and exact Delineation of this Holy Person. Written by one of his familiar Acquaintance: Presented as the Portraicture of a compleat Gospel-Minister,
p. 102
CHAP. IX. A few Additions to this Character, by his intimate Friend Mr. Richard Fairclough,
p. 123
LET the Reader know, (to assure him that Faction and Partiality are not the Authors of this History) that the two full Narratives that are not subscribed, are written by two Conformable Ministers of very great sincerity and abilities, who were long and intimately acquainted with Mr. Joseph Alleine.
REader, thou art desired to take notice, That that part of the Life which is drawn up by Mrs. Theodosia Alleine, was sent up by her to a worthy Divine, by him to be published in his own Stile, she not imagining it should be put forth in her own words. But that worthy Person, and divers others, upon …, saw no reason to alter it, but caused it to be printed as it is.
These Books following are Published by Mr. Richard Baxter; and Printed for Nevil Simmons, at the Princes-Arms in Saint Pauls Church-yard.
1. HIS Aphorisms of Justification.
2. The Saints Everlasting Rest, in quarto.
3. Plain Scripture-proof of Infant Church-membership and Baptism, in quarto.
4. The right Method for a setled Peace of Conscience, and Spiritual Comforts, in 32 Directions, in octavo.
5. Christian Concord: or, the Agreement of the Associated Pastors and Churches of Worcester-shire, in quarto.
6. True Christianity; or, Christ's Absolute Dominion, &c. In two Assize Sermons preacht at Worcester; in twelves.
7. A Sermon of Judgment preach'd at Pauls, London, Dec. 17. 1664. and now enlarged, in twelves.
8. Making light of Christ and Salvation, too oft the issue of Gospel-Invitations; manifested in a Sermon preached at Laurence-Jury in London, in octavo.
9. The Agreement of divers Ministers of Christ in the County of Woroester, for Catechizing, or Personal Instructing all in their several … that will consent thereunto; Containing, 1. The Articles of our Agreement. 2. An … to the People to submit to this necessary work. 3. The Profession of Faith and Catechism, in octavo.
10. Guildas Salvianus, The Reformed Pastor, shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work, especially in private Instruction and Catechizing, in octavo.
11. Certain Disputations of Right to Sacraments, and the true Nature of visible Christianity, in quarto.
12. Of Justification: Four Disputations clearing and amicably defending the Truth, against the unnecessary oppositions of divers Learned and Reverend Brethreu, in quarto.
13. A Treatise of Conversion, Preached and now published for the use of those that are strangers to a true Conversion, &c. in quarto.
14. One Sheet for the Ministry, against the Malignants of all sorts.
15. A Winding-sheet for Popery.
16. One Sheet against the Quakers.
17. A second Sheet for the Ministry, &c.
18. Directions to Justices of the Peace, especially in Corporations, to the discharge of their Duty to God, &c.
19. The Crucifying of the World by the Cross of Christ, &c. in quarto.
20. A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, and accept of Mercy, while Mercy may be had, as ever they would find Mercy in the day of their extremity, from the Living God: To be read in Families where any are unconverted, in twelves.
21. Of Saving Faith: That it is not onelyonly gradually, but specifically distinct from all Common Faith. The Agreement of Richard Baxter with that very Learned consenting Adversary, that hath maintained his Affertion by a pretended Confutation in the end of Serjeant Shepheards Book of Sincerity and Hypocrisie, in quarto.
22. Directions and Perswasions to a sound Conversion, &c. in octavo.
23. The Grotian Religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication; with a Preface, Vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. and the Puritans, and Sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce, in octavo.
24. Confirmation and Restauration, the necessary means of Reformation and Reconciliation, in octavo.
25. Five Disputations of Church-Government, in quarto.
26. A Key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all that are but truly willing to understand, whether the cause of Roman or Reformed Churches be of God; and to leave the Reader utterly inexcusable that after this will be a Papist, in quarto.
27. A Treatise of Self-denyal, in quarto.
28. His Apology against the Exceptions of Mr. Blake, Kendal, Crandon, Eires, L. Moulin, in quarto.
29. The unreasonableness of Infidelity, in four parts, &c. in octavo.
30. The Worcester-shire Petition to the Parliament, for the Ministry of England, defended, &c. in quarto.
31. His Holy Common-Wealth, or Political …, opening the true Principles of Government, &c. in octavo.
32. His Confession of Faith, &c. in quarto.
33. His Humble Advice; or the Heads of those Things which were offered to many honourable Members of Parliament, &c. in quarto.
34. The Quakers Catechism; or the Quakers questioned, in quarto.
35. An Account of his present Thoughts concerning the Controversies about the perseverance of the Saints, in quarto.
36. His Letter to Mr. Drury for Pacification, in quarto.
37. The safe Religion; or three Disputations for the Reformed Catholick Religion, against Popery, &c. in octavo.
38. Catholick Unity; or the only way to bring us all to be of one Religion, &c. in twelves.
39. The true Catholick, and Catholick Church described, in twelves, &c.
40. The successive visibility of the Church, of which Protestants are the foundest Members, &c. in octavo.
41. A Sermon of Repentance.
42. Of Right Rejoycing.
43. A Sermon of Faith before the King.
44. A Treatise of Death.
45. The Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite, &c. in several Sermons preached at the Abbey in Westminster, in twelves.
46. Two Sheets for poor Families, &c.
47. Short Instructions for the Sick, a sheet.
48. A Saint, or a Bruit, &c. in quarto.
49. The mischief of Self-Ignorance, and benefit of Selfacquaintance, in octavo.
50. Universal Concord, &c. in octavo.
51. The last Work of a Believer, &c. in twelves.
52. The Divine Life, in three Treatises: The first, Of the Knowledge of God: The second, Of Walking with God: The third, Of Conversing with God in Solitude, in quarto.
53. The Reasons of the Christian Religion, &c.
54. Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up into a confirmed state of Grace, &c. 2. The Characters of a sound confirmed Christian, written to imprint on Man's Mind the true Idea or Conception of Godliness and Christianity, in octavo.
55. Now or Never, in twelves.
56. The Life of Faith, in three parts, in quaerto.
57. The Cure of Church-Divisions: or Directions for week Christians to keep them from being Dividers, and Troublers of the Church, in octavo.
58. A defence of the Principles of Love, which are necessary to the Unity and Concord of Christians; and are delivered in a Book, called the Cure of Church Divisions, in octavo.
59. A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw, written to call him to Repentance for many false Doctrines, Crimes and especially fourscore palpable Untruths in matter of Fact, deliberately published by him in two small Libels, in which he exemplifieth the Love-killing and depraving Principles of Church-Dividers: And telleth the World to what Men are hastning, when they sinfully avoid Communion with true Churches and Christians, for tolerable faults, in octavo.
60. The Difference between the Power of Magistrates and Church Pastors, and the Roman Kingdom and Magistracy, under the Name of Church and Church Government, usurped by the Pope, as liberally given him by Popish Princes, in quarto.
61. The Church Told of Mr. Edward Bagshaws Scandals, and warned of the dangerous snares of Satan, now laid for them, in his Love-killing Principles, in quarto.
62. The Duty of Heavenly Meditation, in quarto.
63. How far Holiness is the Design of Christianity, in 4to.
64. God's goodness Vindicated, with respect to the Doctrine of Reprobation and Damnation, in twelves.
65. The Divine Appointment of the Lord's Day, in octavo.
66. More Reasons for the Christian Religion, and no Reason against it, in twelves.
There is now extant another Treatise of Mr. Jos. Allens, Entituled, An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners; with many Practical Cases of Conscience, in octavo.
There is now in the Press, and will in a few Months be Published, A CHRISTIAN DIRECTORY, Or sum of Practical Divinity.
With the Pertinent Cases of Conscience.
BEING
A Promptuary and Help for
1. Young Preachers.
2. Masters of Families.
3. Private Christians, in their daily Practice.
And some performance of the request of many Foreign Divines long since made to A. Bp. Usher, and published by Mr. Dury.
By Richard Baxter.
In Folio.
Books Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry.
Folio.
PRins New History of the Kings of England. Stapletons Translation of Juvenal.
Quarto.
Mount Pisgah, or a Prospect of Heaven; Being an Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, by Tho. Case.
The Real Christian; or a Treatise of Effectual Calling; wherein the Work of God, in drawing the Soul to Christ, being opened according to the Holy Scriptures, some things required by our late Divines, as necessary for a right preparation for Christ, and a true closing with Christ, which hath caused, and doth still cause, great trouble to some serious Christians, are with due respects to those Worthy Men brought to the Ballance of the Sanctuary, there weighed, and accordingly judged, by Giles Fermin.
The Christian Man's Calling; or a Treatise of making Religion ones Business, wherein the Christian is directed how he may perform it in his Religious Duties, in Natural Actions, in his Particular Vocation, in his Family Directions, and in his own Recreations. By George Swinnock, late Preacher at Great Kingbal in the County of Bucks.
An Exposition of the Song of Solomon, by James Durham, late Minister at Glasgow; with a Preface prefixed by Doctor Owen.
Mr. Caryls Exposition of the Book of Job.
The Sinners Sanctuary; or a Discovery made of those Glorious Priviledges offered unto the Penitent and Faithful under the Gospel; being forty Sermons on the Eighth Chapter of the Romans, by Hugh Binning.
The Quakers Spiritual Court Proclaimed.
Doctor Robert Wilds Letter to a Friend in London, upon the receipt of his Majesties Declaration for Liberty of Conscience; together with his Poetica Licentia, or a Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist.
Octavoes and Twelves.
Heaven on Earth; or the best Friend in the worst of Times: To which may be added, A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Thomas Mosely, an Apothecary; with a full account of his Conversion, drawn up by his own hand before his death; and published by James Janeway, Minister of the Gospel.
A Token for Children; Being an Exact Account of the Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths, of several Young Children, in two Parts, by James Janeway.
Memorials of God's Judgments, Spiritual and Temporal; being Sermons preached in London, during the late Visitation, by Nicholas Lockier.
Lazarus Redivivus; or a Discovery of the Tryals and Triumphs that accompany the Work of God, in and about his People; laid open in several Sermons, by N. Blakie.
Fenners four Sermons against Popery.
Bishop Ushers Life and Death.
A Plat for …; or the Seamans Preacher; delivered in several Sermons on Jonah's Voyage to Niniveh, by John Rither, Preacher of God's Word at Wapping.