his exuberant animation was something new in the London pulpit. He was a conspicuous example of pith and vivacity at a time when a dry dignity was beginning to be exacted of preachers as a virtue. Jonathan Swift, who admits his ability, unjustly taxes him with mixing unction with ‘incoherence and ribaldry'. Tom Brown, who takes his Indian to Russell Court, deals chiefly with the congregation, but his hint of Burgess's ‘pop-gun way of delivery’ is in harmony with his style of composition. It is full of epigram, terse, quaint, clear, and never meaningless or dull. Caulfield reproduces a curious contemporary print of Burgess and his congregation. Among current stories of his pulpit wit, the best is that which makes him say that the Jews were called Israelites because God did not choose that his people should be called Jacobites. His very sensible discourse on ‘Foolish Talking and Jesting described and condemned', is of moment in view of his own practice and repute. Briefly, he contends that ‘no jesting is lawful but what is medicinal, and restorative of spirits for nobler thoughts’. In theology, he was Calvinistical. Burgess's last years were damped by the defection from his flock and by sickness. ‘If I must be idle,’ he said, ‘I had rather be idle under ground than idle above ground.' He died on 26 January 1713, and was buried on 31 January, in the church of St. Clement Danes. Matthew Henry preached his funeral sermon. Works Of Burgess's publications Bogue and Bennett give, after Henry, an imperfect list of thirty-two without gates, be inning with ‘Soliloquies, which he printed in Ireland, and ending with a Latin defence of nonconformity, ‘Appellatio ad Fratres exteros.' Among his works are: ‘A Call to Sinners,' 1689, 8vo (Written at the request of Baron Rotheram, for the use of condemned criminals). ‘Seasonable Words for English Protestants,’ 1690, 4to. ‘The Characters of a Godly Man,' 1691, 8vo. ‘Eighteen Directions for Saving Conversion to God,' 1691, 8vo. ‘The Death and Rest, Resilrrection and blessed Portion of the Saints’ (Dan. xii. 13), 1692, 12mo. ‘A Discourse of the Death and Resurrection of good Men’s Bodies,’ 1692, 8vo. ‘The Confirming Work of Religion,’ 1693, 8vo. ‘The Sure Way to Wealth . . . evenwhile Taxes rise and Trades sink,' 1693, 8vo. ‘Rules for hearing the Word of God,' &c., 2nd ed. 1693, 8vo. ‘Holy Union and Holy Contention, &,c.’ 1695,