The life & death of Mr. Joseph Alleine, late teacher of the church at Taunton, in Somersetshire, assistant to Mr. Newton whereunto are annexed diverse Christian letters of his, full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of Godliness, both in persons and families, and his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Newton.

His Loyalty.

It appeared that he had a due sense of the grand importance of the Obedience of Subjects to the Supream Magistrate, by some excellent Sermons which he Preached on that of the Apostle, Rom. 13. ver. 1. a little before his Election; where, and when his Judgment was so strict, as unjustly to offend some, whose weakness and ignorance, by reason of a long Proscription of the Regal Power, had made over-scrupulous, or erroneous. His I oyalty also to his Prince, he discovered in observing the injunction of the Wise Man, viz. Not to Curse the King, no not in his bed-Chamber, or Retiring-Rooms: for he hath often been seen with indignation to turn from, and hush into silence, all Reports or Surmises, true or false, which directly or indirectly, did tend to detract from, and de∣fame Dignities, accounting them no cause of withdrawing or lessening our just Honour and Obedience; but rather of giving our selves the more to Prayer and Humiliation.