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carried with them fuch effectual recommendations from 
their common matter, that they were all admitted into 
the College of Wifdom, of which Zachary Urfinus, pro- 
feffor of divinity, was diredlor. 
The univerfity of Heidelberg was at this time in a very 
flourifliing condition, and had able profeffors in all the 
faculties ; of which circumftance Pareus availed himfelf 
with the utmoft diligence, and made a diftinguiftied pro¬ 
ficiency in his acquaintance with the Latin, Greek, and 
Hebrew, languages, philofophy, and divinity. In 1571, 
when he was about twenty-three years of age, he was ad¬ 
mitted to the miniftry, and fent to officiate at a village 
called Schlettenbach, where he was commiffioned to in¬ 
troduce the proteftant reformed religion. Before the end 
of the year he was recalled to Heidelberg, and appointed 
to teach the third clafs of ftudents ; in which employ¬ 
ment he acquitted himfelf with fuch ability, that after 
the expiration of two years he was promoted to the 
fecond clafs. After holding this fituation fix months, he 
refigned it, to become pallor of Hemlbach in the diocefe 
of Worms, and to eftablifh the reformed religion in that 
place. Soon after his fettlement at Hemlbach he entered 
into the marriage-llate ; and his nuptials, which were 
publicly celebrated in 1574, exhibited a novel fight to 
the parilhioners, ■who had never before feen a clergyman 
take to himfelf a wife. In the year 1577, upon the death 
of the eleflor Frederic III. his fon Louis, who was a 
agalous Lutheran, eftablifhed minifters of that communion 
throughout his dominions, in the room of the reformed ; 
by which meafure Pareus loft his living. On this occafion 
he retired into the territories of prince John Cafimir, 
brother to that eledtor, and officiated for three years as 
minifter of Ogerlheim near Frankenthal. Afterwards he 
removed to fill the fame office at Winzingen near Neu- 
ftadt. What rendered the neighbourhood of the latter 
place the more agreeable and advantageous to him was 
the circumftance, that prince Cafimir had founded a 
fc/tola illujiris at that place in 1578, and had fettled there 
all the profefl'ors who had been expelled from Heidelberg. 
In 1583, the eledlor Louis dying, the foie guardianlhip of 
his fon Frederic IV. and the adminiftration of the pala¬ 
tinate devolved upon prihce Cafimir; who reftored the 
reformed minifters, and appointed Pareus fecond profelfor 
in the College of Wifdom at Heidelberg, in the year 1584. 
Two years afterwards he commenced author, by publifh- 
ing his “ Methodus Ubiquitaria; Controverfiae.” In 1589, 
he publiflied an edition of the German verfion of the 
Bible, at Neuftadt, with notes; which drew him into a 
warm controverfy with a Lutheran of Tubingen, named 
James Andreas. In 1591, Pareus was appointed firft pro- 
feflor in the College of Wifdom ; and in 1592, counfellor 
of the ecclefiaftical fenate. Thefe promotions were fol¬ 
lowed, in 1593, by his admiffion, in a moft folemn man¬ 
ner, to the degree of doctor of divinity. 
Pareus engaged in feveral controverfies with the writers 
of the Augfburg Confeffion, particularly in 1596, when 
he undertook the vindication of Calvin, who was charged 
with favouring Judaifm in his expofition of feveral paflages 
of fcripture. Two years afterwards he was nominated to 
the chair of divinity-profelfor for the Old Teftament at 
Heidelberg; and in the year 1602, upon the death of 
Daniel Toft'anus, Pareus fucceeded him in the chair of 
divinity-profelfor for the New Teftament. He had no^v 
rifen into very high reputation, which was fo widely dff- 
fufed, that it induced numerous ftudents to come and 
attend his lectures at Heidelberg, from the remoteft parts 
of Hungary and Poland. Having purchafed a houfe in the 
fuburbs of that city, in the year 1607, he eredled an apart¬ 
ment in the garden, for a library and ftudy, calling it his 
Pareanum; which name was afterwards given by the city 
to the whole houfe. On this houfe the elector bellowed 
feveral privileges and immunities, as a reward of the pro- 
feffor’s merits. Here he died in June 1622, when he was 
nearly feventy-four years of age, and was buried with all 
the funeral honours which the univerfities of Germany 
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are accuftomed to bellow on their moft diftinguiffied 
members. 
His works confift of “ Commentaries” upon feveral of 
the books of Scripture, and numerous critical, didadlic, 
polemic, and mifcellaneous, pieces, which were collected 
together, and publiflied at Frankfort in 1647, in four vo¬ 
lumes, folio. He gave fo much offence to king James I. 
of England, by feme antimonarchical principles which he 
advanced in his “ Commentary on St. Paul’s Epiftle to the 
Romans,” that his majefty ordered that work to be burnt 
by the common hangman ; and it was condemned in the 
moft difgraceful manner by the univerfity of Oxford. 
An anfwer to it was publiflied by Dr. David Owen, chap¬ 
lain to the earl of Holdernefs, under the title of “ Anti- 
parasus, five Determinatio de Jure Regio habita Canta- 
brigiae in Scholis theologicis, 19 April 1619, contra Dir- 
videm Paraeum, C3eterofque reformatae Religionis Anti- 
monarchos,” 1632, 8vo. to which a reply was written by 
the fubjedl of the next article. 
PARE'US (John-Pliilip), fon of the preceding, was 
born in 1576 at Hemlbach, in the diocefe of Worms. He 
ftudied at Neuftadt and Heidelberg ; and afterwards, at the 
expenfe of the elector-palatine, vifited feveral foreign 
univerfities, being generally well received on account of 
his father’s reputation. In 1610 he was made reftor of 
the college at Neuftadt, where he continued till the town 
fell into the hands of the Spaniards in 1622, on which 
occafion his library was plundered. From the number of 
his publications he ranks among the moft laborious of 
the German critics and grammarians. He was particularly 
attached to the comedies of Plautus, and had a furious 
controverfy with Gruter on their account. After having 
been at the head of various colleges, among which was 
that of Hanau, he died about 1650. Of the works of this 
author are, 1. Lexicon Plautinum, 1614; an ufeful voca¬ 
bulary of the words ufed by Plautus. 2. Elefta Plau- 
tina, 1601. 3. An edition of Plautus with Commentaries, 
1619. 4. Elefta Symtnachiana. 5. Calligraphia Romana. 
6. Lexicum Criticum, 1645. He alfo wrote fome com¬ 
mentaries on Scripture, and foine works on theology. 
Daniel Pareus, fon of the preceding, was likewife a 
learned philologill, and publiflied an edition of the poem 
of Mufaeus on the Loves of Hero and Leander; Notes on 
Quintilian and Lucretius; Medulla Hiftorise Ecclefiafticse; 
and other works. Gen. Biog. 
PAREWA'H, a town of Ilindooftan, in Oude: eight 
miles north of Bahraitch. 
PARFA'IT (Francis), was born at Paris in 1698, of a 
diftinguiftied family; and died in 1753. His works are, 
1. A General Hiftory of the French Theatre, 15 vols. 
2. A Hiftory of the ancient Italian Theatre, 2 vols. 3. 
A Didlionary of Theatres, 7 vols. 4. Several dramatic 
pieces that were never adted. 
PAR'GA, a town of Albania, on the coaft of the 
Adriatic Sea : twenty-five miles weft-north-weft of Arta. 
The concerns of this little Hate were brought before 
the Britifli parliament in the courfe of the year 1819; 
and few queliions of minor importance have been more 
generally mifreprefented and more completely mifunder- 
ltood than that which relates to the meafures adopted by 
our government in regard to the reftoration of Parga to 
the Sublime Porte. That there ftiould prevail on the part 
of our countrymen a ftrong feeling of regret at the neceffity 
of a meafure, which made the inhabitants of a little ftate 
abandon for ever their native place, is no more than 
might be looked for from them, in favour of the weak 
and unfortunate, without any knowledge of the particular 
merits of the cafe : but this amiable bias, however laud¬ 
able in itfelf, was grofsly abufed by a ftrange perverfion 
of circumftances ; and that condudt, which ought to have 
been viewed as an inftance of Britifli liberality, humanity, 
and confideration for the unfortunate, has, with a Angular 
degree of party-fpirit, been tortured into a breach of 
national faith, and a wanton or thoughtlefs facrifice of a 
meritorious people, to whom we were bound by every tie 
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