Elnathan Parr

Elnathan Parr (d. c. 1632) was a Church of England clergyman and theologian. For his religious writings he is recognised as an Anglican divine.

Quotes

• If a Surgeon should come among us and undertaking to cure some, desperately diseaſed person, should make him fish whole (as we say) and as found as ever he was, and that freely: this would allure others to resort to him for the recovery of their paynes, or as a Physitian, desiring to get a fame, would looke out fome person even at deaths dore and cure him, that by such experiment, he might get a name, and come into practise: So Christ desires fame and glory, he would have all our custome; he would all sicke consciences should come unto him for cure: and for this purpose he takes Paul, in the eye of man sicke of incurable desese, he physickes him, heales him and highly preferres him, receiving nothing, but giving all good things to his patients, for he seekes nothing but glory.
  • A Plaine Exposition upon the 8. 9. 10. 11. Chapters of the Epistle . . . to the Romanes (London: George Purslowe for Samuel Man, 1618), ch. 11 [1]

External links

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Parr, Elnathan