urnet tells us.

[312] See "The Rehearsal Transprosed, the second part," p. 76.

[313] One of the canting terms used by the saints of those days, and
not obsolete in the dialect of those who still give themselves
out to be saints in the present.

[314] Marvell admirably describes Parker's journey to London at the
Restoration, where "he spent a considerable time in creeping
into all corners and companies, horoscoping up and down
concerning the duration of the government." This term, so
expressive of his political doubts, is from "Judicial
Astrology," then a prevalent study. "Not considering anything
as best, but as most lasting and most profitable; and after
having many times cast a figure, he at last satisfied himself
that the episcopal government would endure as long as this
king lived, and from thenceforwards cast about to find the
highway to preferment. To do this, he daily enlarged not only
his conversation but his conscience, and was made free of some
of the town vices; imagining, like Muleasses, King of Tunis
(for I take witness that on all occasions I treat him rather
above his quality than otherwise), that by hiding himself
among the onions he should escape being traced by his
perfumes." The narrative proceeds with a curious detail of all
his sycophantic attempts at seducing useful patrons, among
whom was the Archbishop of Canterbury. Then began "those
pernicious books," says Marvell, "in which he first makes all
that he will to be law, and then whatsoever is law, to be
divinity." Parker, in his "Ecclesiastical Polity," came at
length to promulgate such violent principles as these, "He
openly declares his submission to the government of a Nero and
a Caligula, rather than suffer a dissolution of it." He says,
"it is absolutely necessary to set up a more severe government
over men's consciences and religious persuasions than over
their vices and immoralities;" and that "men's vices and
debaucheries may lie more safely indulged than their
consciences." Is it not difficult to imagine that this man had
once been an Independent, the advocate for every congregation
being independent of a bishop or a synod?

[315] Parker's father was a lawyer, and o