ALLEIN, JOSEPH, the son of Tobias Allein, was born at Devizes, in Wiltshire, in 1633, and educated at Oxford. In 1655 he became assistant to Mr Newton, in Taunton Magdalen, in Somersetshire; but was deprived for nonconformity. He died in 1668, aged 35. He was a man of great learning, and greater charity; preserving, though a nonconformist, and a severe sufferer on that account, great respect for the church, and loyalty to his sovereign. He wrote several books of piety, which are highly esteemed; but his Alarm to Unconverted Sinners is more famous than the rest. There have been many edi-
tions of this little pious work, the sale of which has been very great; of the edition 1672 there were 20,000 sold; of that of 1675, with this title, A Sure Guide to Heaven, 50,000. There was also a large impression of it with its first title in 1720.