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Robert Parker (1569–1614) was an English Puritan clergyman and scholar. He became minister of a separatist congregation in Holland where he died while in exile for his heterodoxy. He was descended from the Spencer family of Althorp, Northamptonshire. The Reverend Cotton Mather wrote of Parker as "one of the greatest scholars in the English Nation, and in some sort the father of all Nonconformists of our day." ==Life== Parker was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he became a chorister in 1575. He was a demy there 1580-3, graduated B.A. 3 November 1582, was elected Fellow 1585–93 during which time he had got into trouble in 1588 for not donning the surplice, and proceeded M.A. 22 June 1587. In 1591 Parker was beneficed as minister to the rectory of Patney, Devizes, being instituted on 24 January 1592, and resigning in 1593. From 1594 to 1605 he held the vicarage of Stanton St. Bernard. It appears from the preface to his treatise ''De Descensu Christi'' that Parker was a protégé of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. In 1607 he was forced to leave the country to avoid prosecution before the court of high commission, in consequence of his 'scholastic discourse against symbolising.' With a reward on his head he escaped through Gravesend.〔 Parker settled in Leyden. Henry Jacob arrived there in 1610, and with the support of English merchants William Ames was also brought in to oppose the Church of England. In Leyden, Holland Parker comes into the influence and friendship of Reverend John Robinson, M.A. In the historiography of Congregationalism, it has been argued that Parker and Jacob largely agreed on church polity, taking a moderate ('semi-separatist') line; but Parker's place was certainly contested. Georg Horn, later in the 17th century, wrote that John Robinson's separatist views were softened by contact with Ames and Parker. William Bradford placed Ames and Parker in the tradition of Thomas Cartwright. Richard Clyfton, however, attacked Parker as identified with the Brownist Christopher Lawne.〔 When Parker moved to Amsterdam around 1611, there was friction with the dominant presbyterian minister John Paget at the English Reformed Church. Paget later argued that Parker had adapted to and participated in the presbyterian discipline. Both William Best and John Davenport, however, charge Paget with jealousy of Parker, who could preach in Dutch.〔 Parker left in 1613 for Doesburg, Gelderland, to preach to the garrison there, and died there about eight months after, in 1614, still in touch with Paget about returning. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Parker (minister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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