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Simon Patrick (8 September 1626 – 31 May 1707) was an English theologian and bishop.


Life

He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, eldest son of Henry Patrick, a wealthy merchant, on 8 September 1626, and attended
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. He entered
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, in 1644, and after taking orders in 1651 became successively
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to Sir Walter St. John and vicar of Battersea,
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. He was afterwards (1662) preferred to the
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of St. Paul's,
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, London, where he continued to labor during
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. He was appointed Dean of Peterborough in 1679, and Bishop of Chichester in 1689, in which year he was employed, along with others of the new bishops, to settle the affairs of the Church in Ireland. In 1691 he was translated to the
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of
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, which he held until his death on 31 May 1707. He was buried in
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. His memorial is by Edward Stanton. He had Dalham Hall built.


Works

His sermons 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, Moses Lowman, William Lowth, and Daniel Whitby. Patrick's ''Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist'' was a controversial tract, defending the Five Mile Act. 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, and the Cambridge Platonists; and was criticized for his
Arminian Arminianism is a branch of Protestantism based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) and his historic supporters known as Remonstrants. Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the ''Re ...
belief. He is described by historians as an influential
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.


Marriage

In 1675 he married Penelope Jephson (died 1725), a daughter of Maj. Gen. William Jephson (1609-1658), a highly influential Member of Parliament for Stockbridge, and also a substantial landowner in Mallow, County Cork, 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
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,
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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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Rt Rev Simon Patrick

Facsimile of Simon Patrick's preface to Hugo Grotius' Truths of Christian Religion.
Scanned by Elms College Alumnae Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Patrick, Simon 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