Anthony Burges

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Anthony Burges or Burgess (died 1664) was a Nonconformist English clergyman,a prolific preacher and writer.

He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge from 1623. He became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.^[1] At Emmanuel he was tutor to John Wallis^[2]

From 1635 he was Rector at Sutton Coldfield; he lost this position in 1662, after the Restoration.^[3] He was a member of the Westminster Assembly.

Two volumes of a major work on justification appeared in 1651 and 1654, followed by works of the 1650s on grace and original sin^[4].

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1. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography, under "Anthony Burgess".
2. ^ Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965), p. 108.
3. ^ History of Sutton Coldfield A to D
4. ^ The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated from the Errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and Antinomians (1651), and A Treatise of Justification, Including On the Natural Righteousness of God, and Imputed Righteousness of Christ (1654)[1].