58 LIVES OF TIIE PURITANS. however, he is mistaken ; for Mr..Burtonwas buried January 7, 1647, aged sixty-eight years.. The memory of this zealous and faithful servant of Christ has suffered the reproach and contempt of most of our bigotted historians ; but, from the foregoing narrative, his manifold and painful sufferings stand as a monument of disgrace to the government under which le lived, and especially as a lasting reproach to Archbishop Laud.t Some, indeed, have not been ashamed to assert, that his heavy sentence, with that of his fellow-sufferers, was just and necessury.$ But, says Granger, " The punishment of these men,who were of thethree great professions,was ignominious and severe: The indignity and severity of their punishment gave general offence ; and they were no longer regarded as criminals, but confessors."§ His WORKS, in addition to those already mentioned. - 1. A Censure of Simony, 1624.-2. Israel's Fast, or Meditations on the seventhChap. of Joslitta, 1628.-3. Truth's Triumph over Trent, or the great Gulph betweenSion and Babylon ; that is, the irreconcile- able Opposition between the ApoStolic Church of Christ and the Apostate Synagogue of Antichrist, in the main and fundamental Doctrine of Justification, 1629.-4. The Law and the Gospel recon- ciled against the Antinomians, 1631.-5. The Christian's Bulwark, or the Doctrine of Justification, 1632.-6. Exceptions against Dr. Jackson's Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes, 163..- 7. Jest Worship Confuted: or, certain Arguments against Bowing at the Name of Jesus, proving it to be idolatrous and Superstitious, and so utterly unlawful : . With Objections to the contrary fully Answered, 1641.-8. The Sounding of the two last Trumpets : or, Meditations on the ninth, tenth, and eleventh Chapters of Revelation, 1641. - 9. The Protestation Protested ; or, a short Remonstrance showing what is principally required of all those who take the last Parliamentary Protestation, 1641.-10. England's Bondage and Hopes of Deliverance, a Sermon preached before the Parliament, 1641.-11. A Narration of his own Life, 1643.-12. A Vindication of Independent Chuiches, in Answer to Mr. Prynne, 1644.-13. Parliament's Powerfor Laws in Religion, 1645.-14. Truth Vindicated against Calumny, in a brief Answerto Dr.: Bastwick's two books, entitled, ' Independency not God's Ordinance,' 1645.- 15. Truth shut out of Doors ; or, a brief Narrative of the Occasion and Manner of Proceeding of Aldermanbury parish in shutting their Church-door against him, 1645.-16. Truth still Truth, though shut out of Doors, 1646.-17. Conformity's Deformity, in a Dialogue between Conformity and Conscience, 4646.-15. Relation of Mr. Chillingworth. e Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, vol. ii. b. xiv. p. 22. -1 The portraits of Archbishop Laud and Mr. Burton, both whole lengths, werepublished in one print. The prelate is represented as vomit- ing up his own works, and Mr. Burton holding head. The print is. extremely scarce andcurious.-Granger's Biog.'Hist. vol. ii. p. 152. t Vernon's Life of Heylin, p.91. Edit. 1682. 1g Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. It. p. 192, 192.
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