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Baptism, for their first solemn initiation into Christ, and for their future actual renovation, in God s good time, if they live to yeares of discretion, and enjoy the ordinary means of grace appointed of God to this end." He delivered a large number of sermons before Parliament and other civil bodies, which were published from time to time. He is credited also with the paper subscribed by the London ministers, entitled A Vindication of the ministers of the Gospel in and about London from the unjust Aspersions cast upon their former Actings for the Parliament , as if they had promoted the Bringing of the King to Capital Punishment, London, 1648. C. A. Briggs.
Bibliography: A. a Wood, Athene? Oxonienses, ed. P. Blis?, iii. 6S1; D. Neal, History of the Puritans, ii. 365, 36S, iv. 332, Dublin, 1759; DNB, vii. 301-304 (quite detailed).
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: Vindicia? 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).
BURGESS, DANIEL: English Presbyterian; b. at Staines (15 m. w.s.w. of London), Middlesex, 1645; d. in London Jan. 26, 1713. He studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but would not conform and so did not graduate; went to Ireland in 1667 with Roger Boyle, earl of Orrery, and became master of a school founded by his patron at Charleville, County Cork; was ordained by the Dublin presbytery; in 1685 he settled in London, where he gained influential friends and preached to a large congregation attracted by his lively and witty style. Besides preaching he took pupils and was tutor to Henry St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). His publications were numerous, mostly sermons; they include: Directions for Daily Holy Living (London, 1690); The Golden Snuffers ; or Christian Reprovers and Reformers Characterized, Cautioned, and Encouraged (1697); Proof of God's Being and of the Scriptures' Divine Original, with Twenty Directions for Reading them (1697).
BURGESS, FREDERICK: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Long Island; b. at Providence, R. I., Oct. 6, 1853. He was educated at Brown University (B.A., 1873), the General Theological Seminary (1874-75), and Oxford University (1876), and was successively rector of Grace Church, Amherst, Mass. (187,8-83), Christ Church, Pomfret, Conn. (1883-89), Grace Church, Bala, Pa. (1889-96), Christ Church, Detroit (1896-98), and Grace Church, Brooklyn (1898-1902). In 1902 he was consecrated bishop of Long Island.
BURGESS, GEORGE: First Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maine; b. at Providence, R. I., Oct. 31, 1809; d. at sea while returning from the West Indies Apr. 23, 1866. He was graduated at Brown 1826; tutor there 1829-31; studied at Bonn, Gottingen, and Berlin 1831-34; was rector of Christ Church, Hartford, 1834—47; consecrated bishop Oct. 31, 1847 He published a translation of the Psalms into English verse (New York, 1840), Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of Xew England between Ulfi and 18Jfi (Boston, 1847), and other works.
Bibliography: Memoir of Life of Rev. Geo. Burgess, by his brother, A. Burgess, Philadelphia, 1869.
BURGESS, HENRY: Church of England clergyman and scholar; b. in Newington, London, Jan. 29, 1808; d. Feb. 10, 1886. He studied at the Dissenting College, Stepney; after graduation (1830) was for a time a Baptist minister, but decided to join the Church of England in 1849, was ordained deacon 1850, and priest 1851; became curate at Blackburn 1851; perpetual curate of Clifton Reynes, Buckinghamshire, 1854; vicar of St. Andrew, Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, 1861. His principal works were translations from the Syriac of the Festal Letters of St. Athanasius (London, 1852) and of Select Metrical Hymns and Homilies of Ephraem Syrus, with an introduction and historical and philological notes (1853); The Reformed Church of England in its Principles and their Legitimate Development (1869); Essays, Biblical and Ecclesiastical, relating chiefly to the authority and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures (1873); The Art of Preaching and the Composition of Sermons (1881). He edited The Clerical Journal 1854-68, The Journal of Sacred Literature 1854-62, and the second edition of Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1856).
BURGHERS AND ANTIBURGHERS. See Presbyterians.
BURGON, JOHN WILLIAM : Church of England scholar; b. at Smyrna (the son of a Turkey merchant) Aug. 21, 1813; d. at Chichester Aug. 4. 1888. He studied at London University (University College) 1829-30 and then entered his father's counting-house; matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, 1841, and was graduated B.A., 1845; elected fellow of Oriel 1846, graduated M.A., 1848. B.D., 1871; ordained deacon 1848 and held curacies in Berkshire and Oxfordshire; became vicar of St. Mary's Oxford, 1863; Gresham professor of divinity 1867; was installed dean of Chichester 1876. He has been described as " a High-churchman of the old school," and he won distinction at Oxford as a vehement " champion of lost causes and impossible beliefs." He was the ablest and most learned as well as the bitterest adverse critic of the Revised New Testament and of the revised Greek text. His publications, including sermons, articles in the periodicals, and controversial tracts, were very numerous; among the most noteworthy of his books were: The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham (2 vols., London, 1839); .4 Plain Commentary on the Four Holy Gospels (8 vols., 1S55); Ninety Short Sermons for Family Reading (2 series.