Burgess, Anthony

BURGESS, ANTHONY: Non-conformist clergyman. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1623 and became fellow of Emmanuel; was vicar of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, in 1635; member of the Westminster Assembly; ejected by the Uniformity Act of 1662 after the Restoration, and lived afterward in retirement at Tamworth (14 m. n.w. of Birmingham). He wrote: Vindiciæ Legis (London, 1646); The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted (1648); Spiritual Refining, 120 sermons (1652; 2d ed., 161 sermons, 1658); Expository Sermons (145) on John xvii. (1656); The Scripture Directory (a commentary on I Corinthians iii.), to which is Annexed the Godly and Natural Man's Choice, upon Psalm iv. 6–8 (1659); The Doctrine of Original Sin Asserted (1659).