The visions and prophecies of Daniel expounded wherein the mistakes of former interpreters are modestly discovered, and the true meaning of the text ... by the words and circumstances of it (1646)
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The visions and prophecies of Daniel expounded wherein the mistakes of former interpreters are modestly discovered, and the true meaning of the text made plain by the words and circumstances of it
Parker, Thomas, 1595-1677.
2, 156 p.
London : Printed for Edmund Paxton and are to be sold by Nathanael Webb and William Grantham, 1646.
Wing / P481
English
Reproduction of the original in the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N. Y.) Library
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Thomas Parker was born on June 8, 1595 in Stanton St Bernard, Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. He was the only son of the Reverend Robert Parker, a leading nonconformist, who was forced to take refuge in the Netherlands in 1607, and Dorothy (Stevens) Parker.
Education
Thomas Parker matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1610. Later, he proceeded thence to Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1614 to the University of Leyden, where he studied theology under William Ames. His formal education was completed under Johannes Maccovius at the University of Franeker, where he received the degree of Master of Philosophy in 1617.
Career
Thomas Parker published seventy theses, supralapsarian in character, which precipitated a violent controversy between his teachers and other continental divines. After the Synod of Dort had acquitted Parker of heresy, he settled in Newbury, Wiltshire, became assistant master of the Free Grammar School there, and assistant to the minister. In 1634, with numerous friends and relatives, he emigrated to Massachusetts. The company, after wintering at Ipswich, where Parker assisted the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, obtained the grant of a nearby township which they named Newbury, and promptly organized a church of which Parker and his cousin James Noyes were ordained ministers. "So unshaken was their friendship, nothing but death was able to part them. They taught in one school; came over in one ship; were pastor and teacher of one church; and Mr. Parker continuing always in celibacy, they lived in one house, till death separated them for a time. "
In New England, Parker was an orthodox Calvinist in doctrine, walking forty miles to vote against Governor Vane in 1637 and later hounding the Quakers, but in matters of ecclesiastical polity, although the son of an eminent English Congregationalist, and the pupil of another, he persuaded himself that Presbyterianism was necessary to restrain the democratic pretensions of the laity, and keep order in the New England churches. He wrote to the Westminster Assembly showing up the weak points of Congregationalism, and in person argued for Presbyterianism at the New England church synods of 1643 and 1662. Although these decided against him, Parker and his colleagues (Noyes until his death in 1656, and afterward Parker's nephew John Woodbridge) continued to rule the Newbury church in a Presbyterian manner, taking the consent of the congregation "in a silential way. " The flock was not always silent: a strong section persistently demanded their rights and privileges under the Congregational dispensation, and frequently appealed to church councils and civil courts; but the Bay authorities consistently declined to discipline Parker, who eventually wore out and outlived his opponents, dying on April 24, 1677.