To Convince & Convert & Save You - Puritan Joseph Alleine #shorts #christianshorts #Jesusshorts #God
John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
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To Convince & Convert & Save You - Puritan Joseph Alleine #shorts
Joseph Alleine was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1633. He loved and served the Lord from childhood. From eleven years of age onward, "the whole course of his youth was an even-spun thread of godly conversation," wrote one observer. The times, however, are perilous. Charles I was beheaded and his son, Charles II, at the head of a Scottish army, is defeated by Cromwell's Parliamentarians at Worcester as young Joseph Alleine sets off for Corpus Christi College. At Oxford, Alleine would sit at the feet of such divines as John Owen and Thomas Goodwin.
Alleine first worked as a college tutor, then later as a chaplain, devoting considerable time to preaching in the county jail, visiting the sick, and relieving the poor.
Alleine would often rise early in the morning, lamenting that others were already at work before he prayed to his Master. His wife commented that he "would be much troubled if he heard smiths or other craftsmen at work at their trades, before he was at communion with God: saying to me often, 'How this noise shames me! Doth not my Master deserve more than theirs?'" Alleine would customarily have private devotions and meditation upon God from 4 to 8 A.M.
Richard Baxter was impressed with Alleine's "great ministerial skillfulness in the public explication and application of the Scriptures-so melting, so convincing, so powerful." He was an excellent teacher who devoted
