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Simon Patrick (8 September 1626 – 31 May 1707) was an
English
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theologian and bishop.
Life
He was born at
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** Gainsborough Ward, Ipswich
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,
Lincolnshire
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, eldest son of
Henry Patrick, a wealthy merchant, on 8 September 1626, and attended
Boston Grammar School. He entered
Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1644, and after taking orders in 1651 became successively
chaplain to
Sir Walter St. John and
vicar
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of Battersea,
Surrey. He was afterwards (1662) preferred to the
rectory of
St. Paul's,
Covent Garden,
London
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, where he continued to labor during
the plague.
He was appointed
Dean of Peterborough
The Dean of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey ...
in 1679, and
Bishop of Chichester
The Bishop of Chichester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the counties of East and West Sussex. The see is based in the City of Chichester where the bishop's sea ...
in 1689, in which year he was employed, along with others of the new bishops, to settle the affairs of the Church in
Ireland
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. In 1691 he was translated to the
see of
Ely, which he held until his death on 31 May 1707. He was buried in
Ely Cathedral.
His memorial is by
Edward Stanton.
He had
Dalham Hall
Dalham Hall is a country house and estate, located in the village of Dalham, Suffolk, near Newmarket, and west of Bury St Edmunds.
Owners of the Dalham estate have included:
*c.1050-1240 Peche Family
*1240-1320 English Crown Estate (from 1 ...
built.
Works
His
sermon
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s and devotional writings are numerous, and his ''Commentary on the Historical and Poetical Books of the Old Testament'', in 10 vols., going as far as the ''
Song of Solomon'', was reprinted in the 1810 ''Critical Commentary on the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha'', along with works of
Richard Arnald
Richard Arnald (1698 or 1700 Nichols, J., ''The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester'', Vol. 3, Part 2 (1804), pp. 1059, 1071 – 4 September 1756) was a distinguished English clergyman and biblical scholar.
Life
He was a native ...
,
Moses Lowman
Moses Lowman (1680–1752) was an English nonconformist minister, known as a Biblical commentator.
Life
Born in London, he became a student at the Middle Temple in 1697, but a year later abandoned law for divinity. On 17 September 1698 he entered ...
,
William Lowth
William Lowth D.D. (1660–1732) was an English clergyman, known as a Biblical commentator.
Life
He was the son of William Lowth, an apothecary, who was burnt out in the Great Fire of London, and was born in the parish of St Martin, Ludgate on 3 ...
, and
Daniel Whitby
Daniel Whitby (1638–1726) was a controversial English theologian and biblical commentator. An Arminian priest in the Church of England, Whitby was known as strongly anti-Calvinistic and later gave evidence of Unitarian tendencies.
Life
The s ...
.
Patrick's ''Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist'' was a controversial tract, defending the
Five Mile Act
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.
It excited considerable feeling at the time of its publication in 1668. Among replies was one from
Samuel Rolle as Philagathus. He also contributed to a volume of ''Poems upon Divine and Moral Subjects'' (1719).
The first collected edition of his works appeared at Oxford in 1858 (9 vols.), edited by Alexander Taylor; a small ''Autobiography'' was published also at Oxford in 1839.
He is the author of the anti-semitic pamphlet,
Jewish Hypocrisie, A Caveat To The Present Generation."
Theology
Simon Patrick, was influenced by prominent Arminian theologians as
Henry Hammond
Henry Hammond (18 August 1605 – 25 April 1660) was an English churchman, who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.
Early life
He was born at Chertsey in Surrey on 18 August 1605, the youngest son of John Hammond (c. 155 ...
, and the
Cambridge Platonists
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Group and its na ...
; and was criticized for his
Arminian belief. He is described by historians as an influential
Arminian Anglican.
Marriage
In 1675 he married Penelope Jephson (died 1725), a daughter of Maj. Gen.
William Jephson (1609-1658), a highly
influential
Member of Parliament
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for Stockbridge, and also a substantial landowner in
Mallow, County Cork
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It is the administrative centre of north County Cork, and the Northern Divisional Offices of Cork County Coun ...
, by his wife Alicia Dynham,
[Jephson, Maurice Denham ''An Anglo-Irish Miscellany, some Records of the Jephsons of Mallow'' Dublin Allen Figgis 1964] a daughter of Sir John Dynham of
Boarstall Tower,
Buckinghamshire and Penelope Wenman. They had three children, two of whom died young.
[The printed autobiography of Simon Patrick calls his wife a "grandchild to the lady Durham (sic) of Borstall". The Auto-Biography of Simon Patrick, Bishop of El]
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Notes and references
Citations
Sources
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Attribution
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External links
Rt Rev Simon Patrick
Facsimile of Simon Patrick's preface to Hugo Grotius' Truths of Christian Religion.
Scanned by Elms College Alumnae Library.
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1626 births
1707 deaths
17th-century Church of England bishops
18th-century Church of England bishops
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Arminian ministers
Arminian theologians
Bishops of Chichester
Bishops of Ely
Canons of Westminster
Deans of Peterborough
English theologians
People educated at Boston Grammar School
People from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
17th-century Anglican theologians
18th-century Anglican theologians