# Anthony Burges > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anthony_Burges > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anthony_Burges.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burges > Source revision: 1349915551 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English clergyman and writer (died 1663)}} {{for|the 20th-century English fiction writer|Anthony Burgess}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} '''Anthony Burges''' or '''Burgess''' (died 1664) was a [Nonconformist](/source/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)) English clergyman, a prolific preacher and writer.E. Calamy, ed. S. Palmer, ''The Nonconformist's Memorial'', 2nd Edition, 3 Vols (Button & Son, and T. Hurst, London 1803), [https://books.google.com/books?id=McTvkz4LpS8C&pg=PA350 p. 350] (Google).E.C. Vernon, 'Burgess, Anthony (d. 1664)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004). ==Life== He was a son of a schoolmaster at [Watford](/source/Watford), and not related to [Cornelius Burgess](/source/Cornelius_Burgess), nor to [John Burges](/source/John_Burges), his predecessor at Sutton Coldfield. He studied at [St. John's College, Cambridge](/source/St._John's_College%2C_Cambridge) from 1623.{{acad|id=BRGS623A|name=Burgess, Anthony}} He became a Fellow of [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge).''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'', under "Anthony Burgess". At Emmanuel he was tutor to [John Wallis](/source/John_Wallis),[Christopher Hill](/source/John_Edward_Christopher_Hill), ''Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution'' (1965), p. 108.[:s:Burgess, Anthony (DNB00)](/source/%3As%3ABurgess%2C_Anthony_(DNB00)) who said of Burgess that he was "a pious, learned and able scholar, a good disputant, a good tutor, an eminent preacher, [and] a sound and orthodox divine."'Dr Wallis's account of some passages of his own life', in ''The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A.'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=GnYDAAAAMAAJ Vol III] (Samuel Bagster, London 1810), pp. cxl-clxix, at p. cxlviii. From 1635 to 1662 he was Rector at [Sutton Coldfield](/source/Sutton_Coldfield), but his lectures upon Justification were preached in London, at [St Lawrence Jewry](/source/St_Lawrence_Jewry). He was a member of the [Westminster Assembly](/source/Westminster_Assembly).'An Act for the calling of an Assembly of learned and godly divines', (Parliament 1643) pp. 56-61, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WqbQd45SBIUC&pg=PA58 at p. 58] (Google). In 1645 he was one of five signatories to the Introduction to [John Ball](/source/John_Ball_(Puritan))'s ''Treatise of the Covenant of Grace''.J. Ball, ed. Simeon Ash, ''A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace'' (G. Miller for Edward Brewster, London 1645). Page views at [https://archive.org/details/treatiseofcovena00ball/page/n3 Internet Archive]. During the [First English Civil War](/source/First_English_Civil_War) he took refuge in [Coventry](/source/Coventry), and lectured to the parliamentary garrison. He was deprived of his position as Rector in 1662,'Burgess, Anthony (1635-1662)', in Clergy of the Church of England database, CCEd Person ID: 25100. after the Restoration, despite [John Hacket](/source/John_Hacket)'s urging him to conform, and thereafter lived at [Tamworth](/source/Tamworth%2C_Staffordshire).{{Cite web |url=http://atod.suttoncoldfieldatoz.com/B.html |title=History of Sutton Coldfield A to D |access-date=2007-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215180937/http://atod.suttoncoldfieldatoz.com/B.html |archive-date=2009-02-15 |url-status=dead }} ==Works== In 1640 he prepared for the press and published the collected sermons of Dr [John Stoughton](/source/John_Stoughton_(priest)) (died 1639), which were entrusted to him for the purpose by Stoughton's widow, Jane, daughter of [John Browne of Frampton](/source/John_Browne_(Parliamentarian)).These are in several volumes. See preface to ''XI. choice sermons preached upon selected occasions'' (London 1640), [http://downloads.it.ox.ac.uk/ota-public/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A13/A13010.html (Oxford Text Archive)]. He published various separate sermons, including a funeral sermon on [Thomas Blake](/source/Thomas_Blake_(minister)), and: * ''The Difficulty of, and the Encouragements to a Reformation; a Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at the publike fast, Septem. 27. 1643'', 1643Full page images at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mou.010005858725;view=1up;seq=2 HathiTrust] (open). Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30235.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). * ''Romes Cruelty and Apostacie Declared, in a Sermon Preached on the Fifth of November, 1644, before the Honourable House of Commons'', 1645Full page images at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mou.010005891476;view=1up;seq=1 HathiTrust] (open). * ''Vindiciae Legis, a Vindication of the Moral Law . . . (against Antinomians) in twenty-nine lectures at Lawrence Jury,'' 1646.Full text of 2nd edition (1647, in XXX Lectures), at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30249.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). * ''The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated from the Errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and Antinomians, in thirty lectures at Lawrence Jury,'' (1st edition), 1648.Full page images at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822035064526;view=1up;seq=5 HathiTrust]. (open). * ''The True Doctrine of Justification... or, A Treatise of Justification, Including On the Natural Righteousness of God, and Imputed Righteousness of Christ'' (2nd and 3rd editions), 1651/1654Full page images of [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063634086;view=1up;seq=5 1651 edition] and [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035145427;view=1up;seq=7 1654 edition] at HathiTrust. (open). Full text of 1651 edition at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30248.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). 3rd Edition in original (page views) at [https://archive.org/details/thetruedoctrineo00burguoft/page/n5 Internet Archive]. (open). * ''Spiritual Refining, or, a Treatise of Grace and Assurance'' (120 sermons), 1652.Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30243.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). * ''CXLV (145) Expository Sermons on the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John'', 1656Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30241.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). * ''The Scripture Directory for church-officers and people, or, A Practical Commentary upon the whole third chapter of the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, to which is annexed the Godly and Natural Man's Choice, &c.,'' 1659.Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30242.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). * ''A Treatise of Original Sin'', 1658.Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30247.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). * ''An Expository Comment, Doctrinal, {{notatypo|Controv|ersal}}, and Practical upon the whole first chapter to the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians'', 1661Full text at [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A30238.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Umich/eebo]. (open). ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{prdl|178}} *Works by Anthony Burgess listed (and transcribed) for the [https://www.westminsterassembly.org/author-name/anthony-burgess/?wpv_view_count=4758 Westminster Assembly Project] ;Attribution {{DNB|wstitle=Burgess, Anthony}} {{Westminster Assembly}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Burges, Anthony}} Category:1664 deaths Category:17th-century English theologians Category:Ejected English ministers of 1662 Category:Westminster Divines Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Category:Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category:Year of birth unknown --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anthony Burges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burges) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burges?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.