Author

Joseph Alleine (1634–1668)

Joseph Alleine (1634-1668) was born at Devizes in Wiltshire and ‘set forth in the Christian race’ from the age of eleven. Educated at Oxford (Lincoln and Corpus Christi) from 1649 under men such as John Owen and Thomas Goodwin , he took his BA in 1651 and became a tutor and subsequently chaplain to the College.