Anthony Burges or Burgess was a Nonconformist English clergyman, a prolific preacher and writer.
Life
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. He became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. At Emmanuel he was tutor to John Wallis, who said of Burgess that he was "a pious, learned and able scholar, a good disputant, a good tutor, an eminent preacher, a sound and orthodox divine." 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. In 1645 he was one of five signatories to the Introduction to John Ball's Treatise of the Covenant of Grace. 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, after the Restoration, despite John Hacket's urging him to conform, and thereafter lived at Tamworth.
Works
In 1640 he prepared for the press and published the collected sermons of Dr John Stoughton, which were entrusted to him for the purpose by Stoughton's widow, Jane, daughter of John Browne of Frampton. He published various separate sermons, including a funeral sermon on Thomas Blake, and:
Romes Cruelty and Apostacie Declared, in a Sermon Preached on the Fifth of November, 1644, before the Honourable House of Commons, 1645
Vindiciae Legis, a Vindication of the Moral Law... in twenty-nine lectures at Lawrence Jury,' 1646.
The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated from the Errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and Antinomians, in thirty lectures at Lawrence Jury,, 1648.
The True Doctrine of Justification... or, A Treatise of Justification, Including On the Natural Righteousness of God, and Imputed Righteousness of Christ, 1651/1654
Spiritual Refining, or, a Treatise of Grace and Assurance, 1652.
CXLV Expository Sermons on the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, 1656
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.
An Expository Comment, Doctrinal, Controversal, and Practical upon the whole first chapter to the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians'', 1661
