Anthony Burges

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

He was a son of a schoolmaster at Watford, and not related to Cornelius Burgess or 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

From 1635 he was Rector at Sutton Coldfield; during the First English Civil War, he took refuge in Coventry, and lectured the parliamentary garrison. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly. He lost his position as Rector in 1662, after the Restoration, despite John Hacket's urging to conform, and then lived at Tamworth.

He published various separate sermons, including a funeral sermon on Thomas Blake, and:

Two volumes of his major work on justification appeared, followed by works of the 1650s on grace and original sin.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.