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The mystery of the vialls opened: being a short exposition upon the pouring out of the four last vialls, mentioned in the 16 chapter of the
Revelation: wherein divers things relating to times present, past, and to come, are discovered: as the ruine of Antichrist, and the severall degrees thereunto;
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Complaint against an Uniust Doer: Wherein is declared the miserable slaverie & bondage that the English Church of Amsterdam is now in, by reason of the tirannicall government and corrupt doctrine, of Mr. Iohn Pagett their present minister. The which things are plainly manifested in two
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Revelation by Master Robert Parker ; wherein he differs from M. Brightman, and other Protestant divines, which hold that these judgements are to be poured out upon the Church of Rome, and that party, but he
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William Best: and of such other as have subscribed thereunto. Also an answer to Mr. Iohn Davenport, touching his report of some passages, his allegations of scripture against the baptising of some kind of infants, his protestation about the publishing of his
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October 1591, during a vacancy in the diocese, he was presented by
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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
352:, wife of Robert Parker, died c.1650. Revd. Richard Stevens, brother of Dorothy, of Stanton St Bernard, died c.1661. Anne Noyes, nÊe Parker (or Stevens?), wife of William Noyes, of Cholderton, died c.1658.
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For Stephens of Burderop see 'Chiseldon: Manors and other estates', in R.W. Dunning, K.H. Rogers, P.A. Spalding, C. Shrimpton, J.H. Stevenson and M. Tomlinson,
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A Protestation made and published by Iohn Davenporte vpon occasion of a pamphlett intitled A Just Complaint against an Uniust Doer published by a nameles person
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473:(British History Online accessed 18 June 2016) The rectories of Bulbridge, Ditchhampton and Wilton pertained to a different clergyman named Parker, see
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A Defence of Church-Government, Exercised in Presbyteriall, Classicall and Synodall Assemblies; according to the Practise of the Reformed Churches
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clergyman and scholar. He became minister of a separatist congregation in Holland where he died while in exile for his heterodoxy. The Revd.
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391:(John Sweeting, London 1651). Published posthumously.
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1074:1614 deaths
1069:1564 births
731:Umich/eebo2
634:J. Cotton,
604:T. Bilson,
577:pp. 237â40.
561:pp. 170â71.
555:J. Peirce,
454:pp. 143â45.
448:C. Mather,
342:John Rogers
294:James Noyes
145:De Descensu
143:. Parker's
133:magnum opus
129:Henry Jacob
97:Netherlands
1063:Categories
1013:References
1004:Umich/eebo
794:at p. 145.
750:J. Paget,
702:at p. 105.
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571:B. Brook,
332:and was a
239:Gelderland
208:John Paget
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884:including
835:pp. 6â23.
539:W. Ames,
336:, in the
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712:Peirce,
545:preface.
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344:in 1653.
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764:Paget,
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991:Google
966:Book I
338:Dublin
288:Revd.
249:Family
109:Leyden
53:Patney
818:p. 45
396:Notes
369:editi
356:Works
273:, of
266:Salem
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149:Hades
321:and
218:and
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