Anthony Burges

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.{{acad|id=BRGS623A|name=Burgess, Anthony}} He became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.Concise Dictionary of National Biography, under "Anthony Burgess". At Emmanuel he was tutor to John Wallis,Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965), p. 108.:s:Burgess, 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, but his lectures upon Justification were preached in London, at St Lawrence Jewry. He was a member of the 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'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 he took refuge in 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's urging him to conform, and thereafter lived at Tamworth.{{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 }}

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.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, 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 Hathi Trust] (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 Hathi Trust] (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 Hathi Trust]. (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 Hathi Trust. (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).

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