An en­grav­er, Bur­der fol­lowed Meth­odist George White­field for a while, then be­came pas­tor of a Con­gre­ga­tion­al church in Lan­ca­shire. His ser­vices were of­ten inter­rupted; in Pres­ton there was a the­a­tre in the same build­ing, and once Ro­me­o—in full cos­tume—burst in and de­mand­ed that the ser­vice stop. He lat­er moved to Cov­en­try and found­ed the ci­ty’s first Sun­day School (1785); one of the first pu­pils was John Ea­gle­ton, lat­er a preach­er and church mu­sic com­pos­er.

Burder lived in Lon­don the last 30 years of his life, pas­tor­ing at Fet­ter Lane. He helped found the Re­li­gious Tract So­ci­e­ty (1799) and the Brit­ish and For­eign Bi­ble So­ci­e­ty, and served as Sec­re­ta­ry of the Lon­don Mis­sion­ary So­ci­e­ty. His works in­clude:

• Collection of Hymns from Var­i­ous Au­thors, In­tend­ed as a Sup­ple­ment to Dr. Watts, 1784

• Hatfield, pp. 112-14
• Julian, pp. 194, 1605
• Nutter, p. 454

1. Come, De­sire of Na­tions, Come
2. Come, Ho­ly Spir­it, Calm My Mind
3. Come, Let Us Join to Praise Our Lord
4. Come Ye That Know and Fear the Lord
5. Great the Joy When Chris­tians Meet
6. Jesus, Hail! En­throned in Glo­ry
7. Jesus, Im­mor­tal King! Arise
8. Let Us Be Glad and Re­joice To­ge­ther
9. Lift High Your Cheer­ful Voic­es
10. Lord, Dis­miss Us with Thy Bless­ing
11. Lord of Glo­ry, Who Hast Bought Us
12. Not with Grudg­ing or Com­plain­ing
13. Now May the Lord of Earth and Skies
14. Rise, Sun of Glo­ry, Rise
15. Sweet the Time, Ex­ceed­ing Great
    • Great the Joy When Chris­tians Meet
16. This Pre­cious Truth His Word De­clares
17. When Dark, Gloomy Sha­dows

1. Luton