Badjre of the Order of St. Patrick.
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PATRICK
substituting fot the exterior -m-eath of shamrocks eight rays of silver, four of which are hirger than the other four. The mantle is of rich slvj'-blue tabinet, lined with white silk, and fastened bj' a cordon of blue silk and gold with tassels. On the right shoulder is the hood, of the same materials as the mantle. — Chambers.
Patrick, John, D.D., an English divine, brother of the succeeding, was born at Gainsborough, in Lin- colnshire, about 16-10, and was educated at Cambridge University. After taking holy orders he was preacher at the Charter-house, London. He died about the opening of the 18th century. Like his brother the bishop. Dr. John Patrick was a decided opponent of the papists. He wrote, Reflections vpon the Devotions of the Roman Church, uilh the Prayeis, Hymns, and Les- sons themselves, taken out of their authentic Books ; in three Parts, this first Part containinrj their Devotions to Saints and Angels [all ever published]; with two Di- fjressio7is C07icerninff the Reliqiies and Miracles in Mr. Cressy's late History [anonymous] (Lond. 1G74, 8vo) : — The Virgin Mary misreiveseiited by the Roman Church; in the Traditions of that Church concerning her Life and Glory, and in the Devotio7is paid to her as the Mother of God; both showed out of the Offices of that Church, the Lessons on her Festivals, and from their allowed A uthors ; Part I, wherein Two of her Feasts, h r Conception and Kativity, are considered [anonymous] (Lond. 1688, 4to) ; also in Gibson's Preservative, xv, 292, and xvi, 1. Dr. Patrick also published The Psalms in metre (Lond. 1710, 12mo).
Pati'ick, Symon, D.D., a celebrated English prelate of the orthodox school, flourished during the important events of the 17th century, and stands next to Tillotson in influence and learning. Burnet, his contemporary, ranks Patrick with the most worthy of the English nation, and pronounces him one who was an lionor to the Church and the age in which he lived. Svmon Patrick was born at Gainsborough, in Lincoln- shire, in 1626. His father was a mercer of good credit, and sent him, with a view to affording the boy all the educational advantages of his time, early to school. He received his first educational trHining in his native place, imder one Merriweather, the translator of Sir T. Browne's Religio Medici. At the age of ei.L'hteen Pat- riclv was admitted into Queen's College, Cambridge, where he studied with great diligence and unceasing perseverance. At the usual time he took the degrees of M.A. and B.A., and was chosen fellow of his col- lege ; and very shortly after received holy orders from Hall, bishop of Norwich, in his retirement at Heigh- am, after his ejection from his bishopric, which, hav- ing never vacated, he continued to regard as his see. Very soon after his ordination, Patrick was received as chaplain into the family of Sir Walter St. John, of Battersea, who gave him that living in 1658. In 1661 he was elected, by a majority of fellows, master of Queen's College, in opposition to a roj'al mandamus appointing Mr. Anthony Sparrow to that place ; but the affair, being brought before the king and council, was soon decided in favor of Mr. SpaiTow ; and some of the fellows, if not all, who had formerly agreed with Mr. Patrick, were ejected. His next preferment was the rectory of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, given him by the earl of Bedford in 1G62, where he endeared himself much to the parishioners by instruc- tion anil example, and particularly by continuing all the while among them during the plague in 1665. He studied, preached, visited the sick, and distributed alms as composedly as if there had not been a plague thought of, and upon a review of the awful season and his own peril, recorded the following words : "I sup- pose j'ou think I intend to stay here still; though I understand by your question you would not have me. But, my friend, what am I better than another ? Somebody must he here ; and is it fit I should set such a value upon myself as my going away and leaving
another will signify? For it will, in effect, be to say that I am too good to be lost ; but it is no matter if another be. Truly, I do not think myself so consid- erable to the world : and though my friends set a good price upon me, yet that temptation hath not yet made me of their mind ; and I know their love makes me pass for more with them than I am worth. When I mention that word, love, I confess it moves me much, and I have a great passion for them, and wish I might live to embrace them once again; but I must not take any undue courses to satisfy this passion, which is but too strong in me. I must let reason prevail, and stay with mj' charge, which I take hitherto to be my duty, whatever come." A little later he writes : "Dur- ing my confinement with these afhicted people I had many heavenly meditations in my mind, and found the pleaure wherewitli thej' filled the soul was far be- yond all the pleasures of the flesh. Nor could I fancy anything that would last so long, nor give me such joy and delight, as those thoughts which I had of the other world, and the taste which God vouchsafed me of it" (^Autobiography, p. 52). It is said, further, that, out of a special regard to these people, he refused the archdeaconry of Huntingdon. Having sufficient rea- sons for dislike to his college at Cambridge, he went to Oxford for his degrees in divinity; and, entering him- self of Christ Church, took his doctor's degree there in 1666. He was made chaplain in ordinary to the king about the same time. In 1672 he was made prebendary of Westminster, and dean of Peterborough in 1679. In 1680 the lord-chancellor. Finch, offered him the living of St. Martin's in the Fields; but Dr. Patrick refused it, and recommended Dr. Thomas Tenison. In 1682 Dr. Lewis de Moulin, who had been history professor at Oxford, and had written many bitter books against the Church of England, sent for Patrick upon his sick- bed, and solcmnlj' declared his regret upon that ac- count, which declaration, being signed, was published after his death. During the reign of James II Dr. Patrick was one of those champions who defended the Protestant religion against the papists. In the pro- posed revision of the Liturgy, his special share was the remodelling of the Collects ; the process employed for which purpose is described in Birch's Life of Til- lotson, who at that time was dean of St. Paul's, and was the soul of the commission. In Tillotson's com- monplace-book was found a paper in short-hand, enti- tled " Concessions which will probably be made by the Church of England for the union of Protestants; which I sent to the earl of Portland bj' Dr. Stilling- fleet, Sept. 13, 1689." There were seven heads, which it may not be foreign to our subject to transcribe, as Patrick was one of the most active commissioners :