Anthony Burges

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. ["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.]

From 1635 he was Rector at Sutton Coldfield; he lost this position in 1662, after the Restoration. [ [http://atod.suttoncoldfieldatoz.com/B.html History of Sutton Coldfield A to D ] ] 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 ["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) [http://www.rtrc.net/westminster/critical/booktable.htm] .] .

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