an English Puritan clergyman and scholar. He became minister of a separatist congregation in Holland where he died while in exile for his heterodoxy. 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."
A scholasticall Discourse against symbolising with Antichrist in ceremonies, especially in the Signe of the Crosse [London], 1607, 2 pts.
De Descensu Domini nostri Jesu Christi ad inferos libri quatuor ab auctore doctissimo Hugo...
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A scholasticall Discourse against symbolising with Antichrist in ceremonies, especially in the Signe of the Crosse [London], 1607, 2 pts.
De Descensu Domini nostri Jesu Christi ad inferos libri quatuor ab auctore doctissimo Hugone Sanfordo Coomflorio Anglo inchoati, opera vero et studio Roberti Parker ad umbilicum perducti ac jam tandem in lucem editi, Amsterdam, 1611. In 1597 Henry Jacob heard Thomas Bilson, bishop of Winchester, preach at Paul's Cross on the article in the Apostle's creed relating to Christ's descent into hell. In the following year he published an answer. At Elizabeth's command, Bilson prepared his magnum opus in reply (1604). Bilson's doctrine was answered at home by Gabriel Powell, and abroad by Hugh Broughton. Parker's work was begun by Hugh Sanford, who, after labouring on it for two years, died, and Parker finished it after four years' work. In his epistle 'candido lectori' he claims that all Sanford's matter required rearranging. Parker derives Hades from Adam, and traces the whole Greek theogony to Hebrew roots and derivations.
De politeia ecclesiastica Christi et hierarchica opposita libri tres, in quibus tam verse disciplinae fundamenta quam omnes fere de eadem controversiae summo cum judicio et doctrina methodice pertractantur (Frankfort, 1616); a posthumous work, and incomplete. Paget claims the work as a portraiture of the presbyterian church organisation.
An Exposition of the pouring-out of the fourth Vial mentioned in the 16th of Revelation, London, 1650, a portion of which reappeared in The Mystery of the Vialls opened, another posthumous tract by Parker, London, 1651.
