Identifier: josephalleinehis00stan_0 (find matches)
Title: Joseph Alleine: his companions & times; a memorial of "Black Bartholomew," 1662
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Stanford, Charles, 1823-1886. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668
Publisher: London, Jackson, Walford, and Hodder
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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%utfyox>8 preface. THE following work is an attempt tobring into notice some of ourearly Nonconformist worthies, thestory of whose life-long sufferings for truthand duty is now almost unknown. It pro-fesses to be a book of Obscure Martyrs.True it is, that the chief hero, Joseph Alleine,was well known in his own times, but eventhen he was obscure in comparison with manyin the constellation of eminent men aroundhim. With prophet - like solemnity, Richard IV AUTHORS PREFACE. Baxter says : — Let posterity know, thatthough this servant of Christ was exalted abovevery many of his brethren, yet it is not that suchmen are wonders in this age that his life issingled out to be recorded. The Life, inthe introduction to which these words occur,was first published in 1672. It includes anarrative, twenty-five pages long, written byhis widow; several essays, like prose elegies,contributed by his friends; and also forty ofhis letters. Only a few fails are related, andalthough the volumes spread

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