On Vain Disputing

Burgess shows the unprofitbleness of vain disputes in religion that edify none, but only pine away the soul as the lean kine of Pharaoh’s Egypt, at the expense of living grace in the soul. This article is an excerpt from Sermon 2 and the whole of Sermon 51 in his Spiritual Refining (1652), in mod...

Anthony Burgess (†1664) was a partially conforming minister in the Anglican Church, a Westminster divine, and was ejected in the Great Ejection of 1662.