Hezekiah Burton
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Hezekiah Burton (1632-1681) was an English theologian. He was Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was eventually President, and an associate of a number of intellectual figures of the day, in particular Richard Cumberland whose De legibus naturae he edited and to which he contributed an Address to the Reader. He is mentioned in Pepys's Diary.
He was characterised as a Latitudinarian. He was chaplain to Orlando Bridgeman, and used the contact to support Cumberland. A position as rector of Barnes he obtained in 1680 was cut short by his death from illness. He has previously been a prebendary of Norwich, and from 1668 rector of St. George's, Southwark.
[edit] References
- Dictionary of National Biography
[edit] Works
- Several Discourses, viz., I. of purity and charity, II. of repentance, III. of seeking first the kingdom of God (1684)
- A Second Volume of Discourses (1685)
