Burnet, Gilbert (2)

Burnet, Gilbert (2)

an English clergyman, was born about 1698; became vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, then minister of St. James's, Clerkenwell; and died in 1746. He abridged the Boyle Lectures (3 vols. fol.) to 4 vols. 8vo (Lond. 1737), and published Practical Sermons (ibid. 1747, 2 vols.). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit and Amer. Authors, s.v.