"1. Tliat the ceremonies enjoined or recommeuded in the Liturgy or Canons be left indifieient.
"2. That the Liturgy l)e caicfully reviewed, and such alterations and changes therein made as may supply the defects, and remove, as much as possible, all grounds of exception to any part of it, by leaving out the apocryphal lessons, and correcting the translation of the Psalms, used in the public service, where there is need of it ; and in many other particulars.
"0. That, instead of all former declarations and sub- scriptions to be made by ministers, it shall be sutticient for them that are admitted to the exercise of their minis- try in the Church of England to subscribe one general declaration and promise to this purpose, viz. that we do submit to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Church of England as it shall be establislied by law, and promise to teach and practice accordingly.
"4. That a new body of ecclesiastical canons be made, particularly with a regard to a more effectual provision for the reformation of niannei's both in ministers and people. "5. That there be an effectual regulation of ecclesiasti- cal courts to remedy the great abuses and iucouveuieuces which, by degrees and length of time, have crept into them : and, particularly, that the power of excommunica- tion be taken out of the hands of lay officers, and placed in the bishop, and not to be exercised for trivial matters, but upon great and weighty occasions.
"0. That for the future those who have been ordained In any of the foreign Reformed churches be not required to be re-ordained here to render them capable of preferment in this Church.
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"7. That for the fiitme none be capable of any ecclesi- astical benefice or preferment in the Church of England that 6h:ill be ordained in England otherwise than by^bish- ops. And that those who have been ordained only by presbyters shall not be compelled to renounce their for- mer ordination. But because many have and do still doubt of the validity of such ordination, where episcopal ordination may be had, and is by law required, it shall be siifticient for such persons to receive ordination from a bishop in this or the like form : If thou art not already ordained, I ordain thee, etc. ; as In case a doubt be made of any one's baptism, it is appointed by the Liturgy that he be baptized in this form: If thou art not baptized, I baptize thee," etc.
At the Revolution in 1688 great use was made of dean Patrick, who was very active in settling the affairs of the Church : he was called upon to preach before the pruice and princess of Orange, and soon afterwards was appointed one of the commissioners for the review of the liturgy. In 1689 he was made bishop of Chi- chester, and employed, with other bishops, to compose the disorders of the Church of Ireland. In 1691 he was translated to the see of EI3', in the room of Turner, who was deprived for refusing the oaths to the government. Here he continued to perform all the offices of a good bishop, as well as a good man, which he had proved himself to be. In his early life he had regarded the Nonconformists with little favor, and had even written against them in a pamphlet entitled A friemlly Debate between a Conformist and Nonconformist (166S), but in his latter years, especially while in the episcopate, he had had occasion to change his opinion. He had even a great share in the comprehension projected by arch- bishop Sancroft, in order to gain over the Dissenters. This may appear strange, as in the preface to his dia- logue between a Conformist and a Nonconformist he had opposed such a design, and thereby given great of- fence to lord chief-justice Hale, who was zealous for it. His notices of the comprehension proceedings, in his autobiographical detail, are meagre, and cast no light upon the subject. The chief particulars may be found in Calamy's Life of Baxter, Birch's Life of Tillotson, Burnet's Oicn Time, and other publications. Says Har- ris, the biographer of Dr. Manton : " Bishop Patrick, in advanced age, remarked, in a speech in the House of Lords in favor of the ' Occasional Conformity' Bill, that ' He had been known to write against the Dis- senters in his j'ounger years, but that he had lived long enough to see reason to alter his opinion of that people, and that way of writing.' " The reason was, probably, his more intimate, and therefore more accu- rate knowledge of the Nonconformists. Many of these with whom he was brought into personal contact he was disappointed, happih-, not to find violent political partisans, but men wiio professed the constitutional principles of the Revolution of 1688 ; men of devout and exemplar}' life ; men who held the doctrinal arti- cles of the Churcli of England, and lamented that a few things — and only a few — prevented their embrac- ing its communion ; for they entertained no opposition as to the utility of national ecclesiastical establish- ments. Indeed it remains an open question at this day whether Dissent might not have been forever ended in that period of English history had not the Altitudinarians, or Tractarians as we now call them, been so powerful in the Anglican Church. Indeed, we think, had there not been such moderate men as Tillotson and Patrick to alia}' the storm which was then preparing again, there might have been a renewal of the melancholy scenes of tlie days of Charles I. Bishop Patrick's services to the English Clmrch, and the English people as well, cannot, then, be too highly prized. He died at Ely Mav 31, 1707, and was in- terred in the cathedral, where a monument is erected to his memory. Bishop Patrick was one of the most learned men as well as best writers of his time. He published many and various works : some of the de- votional kind, many Sermon.% Tracts agninst Poperi/, and Paraphrases and Commentaries upon the Holij Scriptures. These last are excellent in their way, and