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RICHARD ALLEINE (1611-1681)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:ALLEINE (1611-1681)  , See also:English Puritan divine,. was See also:born at Ditcheat, See also:Somerset, where his See also:father was See also:rector . He was a younger See also:brother of See also:William See also:Alleine, the saintly See also:vicar of See also:Blandford . See also:Richard was educated at St See also:Alban's See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, where he was entered commoner in 1627, and whence, having taken the degree of B.A., he transferred himself to New See also:Inn, continuing there until he proceeded M.A . On being ordained he became assistant to his father, and immediately stirred the entire See also:county by his burning eloquence . In See also:March 1641 he succeeded the many-sided Richard See also:Bernard as rector of Batcomb (Somerset) . He declared himself on the See also:side of the Puritans by subscribing " The testimony of the ministers in See also:Somersetshire to the truth of Jesus See also:Christ " and " The See also:Solemn See also:League and See also:Covenant," and assisted the commissioners of the See also:parliament in their See also:work of ejecting unsatisfactory ministers . Alleine continued for twenty years rector of Batcomb and was one of the two thousand ministers ejected in 1662 . The Five Mile See also:Act drove him to See also:Frome Selwood, and in that neighbourhood he preached until his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:December 1681 . His See also:works are all of a deeply spiritual See also:character . His Vindiciae Pietatis (which first appeared in 166o) was refused See also:licence by See also:Archbishop See also:Sheldon, and was published, in See also:common with other See also:nonconformist books, without it . It was rapidly bought up and " did much to mend this See also:bad See also:world." See also:Roger See also:Norton, the See also:king's printer, caused a large See also:part of the first impression to be seized on the ground of its not being licensed and to be sent to the royal See also:kitchen . Glancing over its pages, however, it seemed to him a See also:sin that a See also:book so See also:holy—and so saleable—should be destroyed .

He therefore bought back the sheets, says See also:

Calamy, for an old See also:song, See also:bound them and sold them in his own See also:shop . This in turn was complained of, and he had to beg See also:pardon on his knees before the See also:council-table; and the remaining copies were sentenced to be " bisked," or rubbed over with an inky See also:brush, and sent back to the kitchen for See also:lighting fires . Such " bisked " copies occasionally occur still . The book was not killed . It was often reissued with additions, The Godly See also:Man's Portion in 1663, See also:Heaven Opened in 1666, The World Conquered in 1668 . He also published a book of sermons . Godly Fear, in 1664, and other less noticeable devotional compilations . See Calamy, s.v.; See also:Palmer's Nonconf . Mem. iii . 167-168; C . Stan-See also:ford's See also:Joseph Alleine; Researches at Batcomb and Frome Selwood; See also:Wood's Athenae (See also:Bliss), iv . 13 .

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