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Hezekiah Burton (1632-1681) was an English theologian. He was educated in Sutton-on-Lound and at Magdalene College, Cambridge,[1] where he became a Fellow and was eventually President. He was an associate of a number of intellectual figures of the day, in particular Richard Cumberland whose De legibus naturae he edited and to which he contributed an Address to the Reader. He is mentioned in Pepys's Diary.
He was characterised as a Latitudinarian. He was chaplain to Orlando Bridgeman, and used the contact to support Cumberland. A position as rector of Barnes he obtained in 1680 was cut short by his death from illness. He had previously been a prebendary of Norwich, and from 1668 rector of St. George's, Southwark.
[edit] Works
- Several Discourses, viz., I. of purity and charity, II. of repentance, III. of seeking first the kingdom of God (1684)
- A Second Volume of Discourses (1685)
[edit] References
- ^ Burton, Hezekiah in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- Dictionary of National Biography