Anthony Burges or Burgess (died 1664) was a Nonconformist English clergyman, a prolific preacher and writer. [1] [2]
He was a son of a schoolmaster at Watford, and not related to Cornelius Burgess, nor to John Burges, his predecessor at Sutton Coldfield. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge from 1623. [3] He became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [4] At Emmanuel he was tutor to John Wallis, [5] [6] 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." [7]
From 1635 to 1662 he was Rector at Sutton Coldfield, but his lectures upon Justification were preached in London, at St Lawrence Jewry. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly. [8] In 1645 he was one of five signatories to the Introduction to John Ball's Treatise of the Covenant of Grace. [9] During the First English Civil War he took refuge in Coventry, and lectured to the parliamentary garrison. He was deprived of his position as Rector in 1662, [10] after the Restoration, despite John Hacket's urging him to conform, and thereafter lived at Tamworth. [6] [11]
In 1640 he prepared for the press and published the collected sermons of Dr John Stoughton (died 1639), which were entrusted to him for the purpose by Stoughton's widow, Jane, daughter of John Browne of Frampton. [12]
He published various separate sermons, including a funeral sermon on Thomas Blake, and:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Burgess, Anthony". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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