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That holy man, Richard Baxter, says in his Preface to Alleine's "Alarm:" "I have done, when I have sought to remove a little scandal, which I foresaw, that I should myself write the Preface to his Life where himself and two of his friends make such a mention of my name, which I cannot own; which will seem a praising him for praising me. I confess it looketh ill-favoredly in me.
At last I could stand it no longer, and requested a particular friend, a youth whose parents lived near, and who often went home, to ask his excellent mother to send me some religious books. She sent me "Alleine's Alarm," an old black book, which looked as if it might have been handled by successive generations for a hundred years.
And now the Shorter Catechism seemed likely to be changed into the Longer Catechism; for he had it Sundays as we'll as Saturdays, besides Alleine's Alarm to the Unconverted, Baxter's Saint's Rest, Erskine's Gospel Sonnets, and other books of a like kind.
Pray, what are your own favourite books? 'There is Alleine's "Alarm to the Unconverted," said she. 'It is a stirring work, and one which hath wrought much good. Hast thou not found it to fructify within thee? 'I have not read the book you name, Sir Gervas confessed. 'Not read it? she cried, with raised eyebrows. 'Truly I had thought that every one had read the "Alarm."
And there began a glorious revival of religion, which pervaded the college, and spread into the country around. Many of those students became ministers of the gospel. The youth who brought me "Alleine's Alarm" from his mother was my friend, the Rev. C. Stitt, who is preaching in Virginia. And he who interrupted me in reading the work, my venerable and worthy friend, the Rev. Dr.
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