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witk tlie terms of conformity, he preferred the altcinative, 

 impotVd by the art of uniformity, of quitting liis living 

 after liaviug retained it for 20 years, and oi ranking witii 

 about 2000 other fuiTi.rcrs, who were diiUngiiiilicd by the 

 denomination of cjedcd minifters. Under tlie rcilraintsand 

 penalties of this ad, he exerciied his niinillry in tlie houle 

 of Mr. More, who had been formcily a member of par- 

 liament, and wl>o lived in his neighbourhood ; and though he 

 was reprimanded by the magilhates and imprifoncd, his re- 

 putation for piety, learning, and exemplary condud, pro- 

 cured a mitigation of the rigorous treatment with which he 

 encountered. In confequence of " The Five-mile Ad," 

 he was utuler a neceffity of removing fiom Batcomb to 

 Frome-Selwood, where he continued in the difcharge of 

 his profeffional duties, notwithll:inding the dangers to which 

 «lie was cxpofed. In this fituation he remained, till death 

 terminated his trials and labours in 1681. He was diftin- 

 guilhed by his plain, pradical and pathetic manner of 

 preaching, and by his affiduity in the duties of his pailoral 

 office, fuch as catechifiug, viiiting the fick and indruding 

 the ignorant. Although he was an avowed non-conformift, 

 and ii:ridly attached to his principles, the moderation of his 

 temper, as well as his general charader, recommended him 

 to the clergy and laity of fentiraents different from his own, 

 and lie lived amongft them on terms of friendlbip and inter- 

 courfe. Mr. Jenkins, vicar of Frome-Selwood, preached 

 his funeral fermon, and bore tellimony to his piety, meek- 

 nefs, and modcratien. His works, which were all of the 

 devotional kind, were much eftecmed, and frequently re- 

 printed. The principal of thefe was his " Vindicix Pieta- 

 tis," or, " A Vindication of Godlincfs, in the greateft 

 ftriclnefs and fpirituality of it, from the imputations of 

 folly and fancy," which was publilhed in 1665, without a 

 printer's name, becaufe it was not licenfed ; but the copies 

 of it were feized and fent to the king's kitchen for wafte- 

 paper. They were afterwards bought by the king's book- 

 feller, who had caufed them to be feized, at a cheap rate, 

 and fold ; for which artifice he was brought on his knees to 

 the council table, and the books were again fent to the king's 

 kitchen and biik'd, /'. e. Ilruck over with ink, fo as to be 

 illegible. The other works of AUein were " Heaven opened, 

 or a brief and plain difcovery of the riches of God's co- 

 venant of grace," printed in 1665 ; " The World Con- 

 quered," 1668, 8vo. ; " Godly Fear," 1674. 8vo. ; «' A 

 Rebuke to Backfliders, and a Spur for Loiterers," 1677, 

 and 1684, 8vo ; " A Companion for Prayer," 1680, l2mo. ; 

 " Inllrudions about Heart- work, &c." 1 68 1, 8vo. Ca- 

 Jamy's Life of Baxter, vol. ii. Wood's Athen. Oxon. vol. ii. 

 Biog. Brit. 



Allein, Joseph, a nonconformift divine, was born at 

 Devizes, in Wiltfliire, in J 633. Having manifefted at a 

 very early age an eminently pious difpofition and an inclina- 

 tion for the miniftry, he was educated with this view and 

 fent to Oxford at the age of 16 years. At college he was 

 :diftingni(hed by diligence in his ftudies and gravity in his de- 

 portment. In 1653 he became a tutor in the college of 

 ■Corpus Chrilli, to which he belonged, and where, for the 

 exercife of his gifts in prayer, he had performed the office 

 of chaplain, which he preferred to a fellowfliip ; and in this 

 ■fituation he was fo afiiduons and io fuccefsful, that many of 

 his pupils occupied refpedable ftation-s both in the eftabliihed 

 church and among the nonconformifts. In 1655 he left 

 college, and was affiltant minifter at Taunton Magdalen, in 

 Somerfetlhire, until the year 1662, when he was deprived 

 for nonconfoi-mity. During this connedion he was inde- 

 fatigable in his nuniilerial fervices, and his condud was fo 



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amiable and exemplary, as to fecure the affedionate eftecm 

 and attachment of his parirtiioners. After his exclufion from 

 the church, he perfevered in his labours, and preached com- 

 monly fix or feven, and lometimes 14 or 15 times a week ; 

 till in 1663 he was committed to Ivelcheller jail, where feven 

 miniftei'S and 50 quakcrs were clofcly confined and enduring 

 fimihir hardlhips. At the aflizes Allein was convicted of 

 having preached in the preceding Mayi, and lentcnced to pay 

 100 marks, and to remain in priion till the tine was paid. 

 " I am glad," faid he on receiving his fentence, '■ that it 

 has appeared before my country, that whatever 1 am charged 

 with, I have been guilty of nothing but doing my duty ; 

 and that all which appeared from the evidence was, that 1 

 fungapfalm, and inilruded my family, others being there, 

 and both in ray own houfe." By an imprifonment of 12 

 months, AUein's conftitution was impaired and the duration 

 of his life (hortened. After his releafe he renewed his 

 hibours, and his fufterings were alfo renewed ; his health 

 gradually declined ; and in 1668 he finifhedhiscouife, at the 

 age of 35 years. His biographers, Anthony Wood ex- 

 cepted, bear teftimony to his learning and cliarity. Zealous 

 in his own mode of worftiipping God, he was not, as mi- 

 nifters of the eftablifhed church have teftlfied, in the leaft 

 bitter towards any Chriftians who worfnipped in another 

 manner. He preferved a great refped for the church, not- 

 W'ithftanding all his fufferings, and was eminently loyal to 

 his prince, notwithftanding the feverities of the times. His 

 writings breathe a true fpirit of piety, for which they have 

 been always and dcfervedly efteemed. His works are, " An 

 Explanationof theAfl'emb!y'aShorterCatechifm,"i656,8vo; 

 " A Call to Archippus," exhorting the cjeded miniilers to 

 continue in their miniftry, 1664, 410 ; " An Alarm to the 

 Unconverted," 1672, 8vo. and i2mo., of which 20,000 

 were fold, and after it was printed in 1675 under the title 

 of " A Sure Guide to Heaven," 50,000 ; " Chriftian 

 Letters, full of Spiritual Inftrudion," 1672, 8vo. ; " Cafes 

 of Confcience," 1672, Svo. ; " Remains, &c." 1672, 8vo. 

 and feveral other fmall pradical pieces ; befidcs an impcrftd 

 body of natural theology in Latin, which has not been 

 printed. An account of his life and death is often annexed 

 to his writings. Calamy's Baxter, vol.ii. p. 577, &c. Neal's 

 Hift. of the Puritans, vol. ii. p. 670, 410. Biog. Brit. 



ALLELENGYON, in Antiquity, a kind of tax, or 

 tribute, which the rich paid to the poor, when abfent in the 

 armies. 



ALLELOPHAGI, from kAXuXk;-, one another, and^ayij, 

 / eat, in Natural Hljiory, a term ufed by Mouffct, and 

 other writers on infeds, to exprels a peculiar genus of flies, 

 which feed on one another. They are thus called in dif- 

 tindion from another cla'.s, called the heierophagi, from their 

 feeding on different fubftances, not on one another. 



ALLELUJAH. See Hallelujah. 



ALLEMAENGEL, in Geography, a fmall Moravian 

 fettlement on Swetara river, in Pennfylvania. 



ALLEMAND, a river of America, which falls into the 

 Miffilippi from the fouth-eaft, about 43 miles fouth of the 

 Natches. 



ALLEMANDA, in Mujic, an ancient movement in 

 common time, moderately quick ; fuppofed, from its title, 

 to be of German invention. lu almoil every leffon, or fonata 

 for the harpfichoid in Handel's time, there was a prelude, 

 an allemand, a faraband, a courant, and a jig, which fee. 

 Roufi'eau fays, the allemand is a dance very common in Swit.'' 

 zerland and Germany, as it became in England a few years 

 ago. But the allemand for dancing is very different from 

 thufe in the works oi Corelli, Handel and Matthefon. 



ALLEMANNIC, 



