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<p> Parker, [[Robert]] (2), </p> <p> a pioneer minister of the [[Methodist]] Episcopal Church, was born at Fisling Creek, Luzerne County, Pa., March 30, 1792; was converted at the age of eleven years, and joined the Methodist Church. He entered the Genesee [[Conference]] in 1820, and continued a member thereof until his death, being forty-seven years in faithful, active work, and seven years superannuated. The Genesee Conference at the time above mentioned included Western and portions of Central and Northern New York, part of Pennsylvania, the whole of Upper Canada, and a part of Michigan. His first charge was Canisteo Circuit, and included Dansville and [[Painted]] Post. His last was Rogersville, which was included in his first circuit. His earlier circuits required three hundred miles' travel, which occupied six weeks' time. [[Riding]] from morning till evening twilight through thick forests marked only by Indian trails, swimming rivers, climbing hills and mountains. and preaching nightly in log hut or school-house or barn, or out of doors, summer and winter. this veteran did an amount of labor for his [[Master]] that few modern preachers conceive of. His life was one of remarkable purity and earnestness, he being always willing to work wherever there was work to do. For the last two years of his life he was almost entirely bereft of reason by a paralytic stroke. Yet he never lost his hold on the higher life, but prayed as intelligibly and eloquently, and sang the old familiar hymns as sweetly, as when in the vigor of manhood. He died in Sparta, N.Y., Dec. 3,1874. See Minutes of Annual Conferences M. E. Ch. p. 875; Conable, Hist. General Conf. ch. ii, 1; Boehm, Autobiography. </p>
<p> Parker, [[Robert]] (1), </p> <p> a Puritan divine of considerable learning and reading, was educated at [[Benet]] College, Cambridge, and .after graduation (1583) was made a fellow thereof. He was finally presented to the benefice of Wilton, in Wiltshire. In 1607 he was obliged to quit the country, and he found refuge in Holland, because he had dared to publish A [[Discourse]] against Symbolizing with ''Antichrist In Ceremonies'' . Parker died in 1614. After his death was published De Politica Ecclesiastica [[Christi]] et Hierarchica opposita, libri tres, in quibus tam verae disciplinae fundamnenta, quamt omnes fere de eadem controversime, summo cum judicio et doctrina methodice pertractantur (Frankfl. 1616, 4to): '''''—''''' A Discourse concerning the [[Puritans]] (1641, 4to): '''''—''''' The [[Mystery]] of the [[Vials]] opened in the 16th [[Chapter]] of Revelation (1651, 4to): '''''—''''' [[Exposition]] of the Fourth [[Vial]] (1654, 4to). See Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s.v.; Neal, Hist. of the Puritan. </p>


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<ref name="term_54746"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/parker,+robert+(2) Robert Parker from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_54747"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/parker,+robert+(1) Robert Parker from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 16:31, 15 October 2021

Robert Parker [1]

Parker, Robert (1),

a Puritan divine of considerable learning and reading, was educated at Benet College, Cambridge, and .after graduation (1583) was made a fellow thereof. He was finally presented to the benefice of Wilton, in Wiltshire. In 1607 he was obliged to quit the country, and he found refuge in Holland, because he had dared to publish A Discourse against Symbolizing with Antichrist In Ceremonies . Parker died in 1614. After his death was published De Politica Ecclesiastica Christi et Hierarchica opposita, libri tres, in quibus tam verae disciplinae fundamnenta, quamt omnes fere de eadem controversime, summo cum judicio et doctrina methodice pertractantur (Frankfl. 1616, 4to): — A Discourse concerning the Puritans (1641, 4to): — The Mystery of the Vials opened in the 16th Chapter of Revelation (1651, 4to): — Exposition of the Fourth Vial (1654, 4to). See Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s.v.; Neal, Hist. of the Puritan.

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  1. ↑ Robert Parker from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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