Cornelius Burges or Burgess, DD, was an English minister.
22 Facts About Cornelius Burges
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Cornelius Burges was active in religious controversy prior to and around the time of the Commonwealth of England and The Protectorate, following the English Civil War.
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Burges was descended from the Burges or Bruges family of Batcombe, Somerset, was probably born in 1589.
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Cornelius Burges had brothers James and John, who remained at Stanton Drew, and a sister Hester who married Samuel Sherman of Dedham, Essex.
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The Calvinistic views held by Cornelius Burges are shown in his Baptismal Regeneration of Elect Infants, published at Oxford in 1629.
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Cornelius Burges was accused of being 'a vexer of two parishes with continual suits of law'.
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The DNB comments that to link Cornelius Burges and Marshall together, as though their views and policy were identical, is an error.
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Cornelius Burges came to the front rank of leaders on the ecclesiastical question in 1641, in connection with the effort made by the House of Lords for an accommodation of ecclesiastical differences.
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The house called for Cornelius Burges to speak in reply to him, which he did on the same afternoon at an hour's notice.
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Cornelius Burges's speech is said to have contained invective; he shared the puritan objection to instrumental music in church services, and made a point of the dissoluteness of cathedral singing-men.
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Cornelius Burges declared that he had spoken in haste; his mature judgement was in favour of the right of the state to apply to its own purposes the lands which had been assigned for the support of offices since abolished.
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Cornelius Burges was convener of one of the three committees into which the assembly divided itself at the beginning of its work.
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Cornelius Burges was one of the few who, in 1643, opposed the imposition of the Solemn League and Covenant, and he carried his opposition so far as to petition the House of Commons to be heard against it.
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Cornelius Burges was not anxious to create an irreparable breach with the episcopal party.
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Four shillings a day was assigned by the ordinance to each assembly-man; but the allowance was paid in irregular driblets, and Cornelius Burges was one of those who declined their share, that the poorer members might come somewhat better off.
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When King Charles was brought to trial, Cornelius Burges was the foremost, at great personal risk, in protesting against the proceeding with his usual freedom and vigour.
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About 1650 Cornelius Burges obtained an appointment at Wells as preacher in the cathedral.
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Cornelius Burges objected to an arrangement by which the inhabitants of St Cuthbert's parish were to hold their services in the cathedral.
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About this time Cornelius Burges invested his property in the purchase of alienated church lands, including the manor of Wells and the deanery which he rebuilt.
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Cornelius Burges is said to have behaved with great rapacity, to have stripped the lead from the cathedral, to have used the proceeds to enlarge the deanery in which he lived, and to have let out the gate-houses as cottages.
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Cornelius Burges still had a house at Watford, and there he lived, attending the church in which he had formerly preached; he was compelled to part with his library for bread.
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Cornelius Burges was a worn-out man, yet, but for his maladies, he might have kept his old lead.