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Sorbonne, and Mr. Tilden, who, having turned Roman- 
catholic at Lifbon, went under the name of Dr. Godden ; 
and the Aibje<St of their difpute was, the rule of faith, 
and the proper judge in controverfies. This conference 
was very long; and at lalf the Romifh doftors were preffed 
with fo much ftrength of reafon and authority againrt 
them, that they were really put to filence. Whereupon, 
his majelty, going off abruptly, was heard .to fay, he never 
law a bad caufe fo well, nor a good one lo ill, maintained.” 
Our author's zeal for the Proteftant religion led him to 
oppo.le, to the utmoft of his power, the reading of James’s 
Declaration for Liberty of Commence, which was pub- 
lifh&d in order to favour the papilts ; and he alfo affifted 
Dr. Tenifon in eftablifhing a fchool at St. Martin’s, in 
order to ccunteraft the influence of the popifn one opened 
at the Savoy, for the purpofe of making converts of the 
children of poor Proteftants. 
At the revolution, that attention and refpeft were paid 
to Dr. Patrick which his fervices and abilities merited, 
and he was called upon to preach before the prince and 
princefs of Orange. Soon afterwards he was appointed 
one of the commiflioners for reviewing the Liturgy ; and, 
as he had an excellent talent at devotional compofltion, 
he revifed the Collects throughout the whole courfe of 
the year : drawing up moll of them anew, and rendering 
them more fuitable to the Epiflles and Gofpels of the 
day. In the year 1689, he was nominated to fill the va¬ 
cant fee of Chichefter ; and immediately after his confe- 
cration he viflted his new diocefe, in which he difcharged 
in all refpefts the duties of a faithful and vigilant pallor. 
He was employed, with others of the epifcopal bench, in 
fettling the affairs of the church of Ireland ; with which 
view they fent back to that country all the clergy who 
bad fled into England for refuge from the tyranny and 
perfecution of the late reign, and recommended to their 
majefties feveral- worthy perfons to fill the vacant bifliop- 
rics. In the year 1691, our prelate was tranflated/to the 
lee of Ely, which was vacant by the deprivation of Dr. 
Francis Turner for refilling to take the oaths to the new 
government. In this fituation he fulfilled the duties of 
the epifcopal funftion with the utmoft application, zeal, 
find integrity, while he continued to profecute his ftudies 
with great afiiduity. He eftablifned lectures in two 
churches in Cambridge, .with a falary to each of 30I. a- 
year, for afternoon-fermons every Sunday. He alfo 
ihowed himfelf a benefactor to his fee by the improve- 
' ments which, at a confiderable expenfe, he introduced 
into its temporalities. At the fame time he Ihowed him¬ 
felf a benefaCtor in the nobleft fenfe to the public at 
large, by the valuable writings, confecrated to the inte- 
refts of piety and virtue, which he was continually com¬ 
mitting to the prefs. He died at Ely in 1707, in the 
eighty-firft year of his age. 
Bilhop Patrick was a man of extenfive learning and 
eminent abilities, and pofleffed great merit as a writer. 
Of the excellence of his public character we have already 
made mention ; and in private life he was exemplary for 
the ardour of his piety, the fanCtity of his manners, his 
integrity, candour, and charity, and the other virtues 
which conftitute the good man and the Chriftian. Bilhop 
Burnet ranks him among thofe who were indeed an ho¬ 
nour to the church, and to the age in which they lived. 
Among his publications are numerous devotional, prac¬ 
tical, and mifcellaneous, pieces, traCts againft popery, 
fermons, &c. But the molt valuable of his works are 
his “ Commentaries” upon the hiftorical books of the Old 
Teftament, and “ Paraphrafes” on the books of Job, 
Pfalms, Proverbs, Eccleliaftes, and the Song of Solomon, 
which made their appearance at various times from the 
year 1679, and, afteV having been frequently reprinted 
in oCtavo and quarto, were collected into three volumes 
folio. The Paraphrafes were firft in the order of publi¬ 
cation. Thefe volumes, with Lowth’s Commentaries 
upon the Prophets, Arnald’s upon the Apocrypha, and 
Whitby’s on the New Teftament, form a collection of 
Englifh exegetical works which is held In high eftiina- 
tion, and, when complete, now fells' for an exorbitant 
price. IVcu/'s Hijl. Purit. vol. iv. Gen. Biop;. 
PA'TRICK’s (St.), a final! illand in the Irifh Sea, near 
the eaft coaft of Ireland. Lat. 53. 36. N. Ion. 6. 5. W 
PA'TRICK’s (St.), a final! town, the chief of Camden 
county, Georgia; fituated on Great Satilla river, about 
thirty-two miles from its mouth. 
PATRICK’S PURGATORY, the name of one of the 
fmall iflands in Lough Derg, a lake in the fouthern part 
of the county of Donegal, Ireland. This ifland itlelf is 
but ia6 yards long by forty-four broad; and the cave, 
which is called the Purgatory, is iixteen feet and a*half 
by two wide, and fo low that a tall man cannot Hand 
ereCt in it. It holds exaftly nine perfons; and a tenth 
could not remain in it without great inconvenience. The 
floor is the natural rock, and the whole is covered with 
large ftones and fods. It was imagined in the dark ages, 
that “ whoever repented and was armed with true faith, 
and entering that pit continued there a night and a day, 
fnould. be purged from all his fins, and alfo, during.his 
abode there, fiiould not only fee the pains of the damned, 
but the joys of the blefled.” There were alfo in the 
ifland a monaftery for regular canons of St. Auftin, fevtn 
chapels, and fix churches dedicated to St. Patrick and other 
faints. The cell was demolifhed in 1497, by order of 
pope Alexander VI. and in 1630 the lords juftices ordered 
it to be broken open ; the monks were driven away; and 
it was left in ruins. The place, however, (till continues 
to be frequented in the month of May, June, and July. 
This ifland, the lake, and river, are all fuppofed by fame 
antiquaries to have derived their name from dearg or dirg, 
“a cave,” and the cave to be fpoken of in the Puranas of 
the Indian Bramins. Mr. Wilford confiders Ireland as 
the Suvarneya of the Puranas. Suvarneya was from the 
earlieft periods confidered as the abode of the Pitris, (i.e. 
fathers or manes.) A place where the pitris could be feen 
is pofitively declared to be a narrow cave in a fmall 
ifland in a lake the waters of which were bitter. In it 
was the entrance of the Dirghe, or long paffage into the 
infernal regions, which is often mentioned in the Puranas. 
The name Dirghe, and the defcription of the cave, cer¬ 
tainly much refemble that in Ireland, whilft the change 
of Pitris to Patricius is lefs difficult than many changes 
which have occurred in proper names. Still it feems in¬ 
credible that Ireland fiiould have been known to the 
Indians, and connected in any way with their fables. 
Ware and other antiquarians maintain the pagan origin of 
the ceremony, and Dr. Ledwich, who denies that fucli a 
perfon as St. Patrick ever exifted, fuppofes the ftory of the 
cave to be “ a pagan tale of purgatory, trumped up with 
every circumftance that could work on the hopes and 
fears” of the Irifh, fo as to render them more obedient to 
papal authority. Here then the learned doctor and his 
refpeftable antagor.ift (general Vallancey) are not much 
at variance, could the former admit the oriental origin of 
what both confider as a relift of paganifm. The molt 
d:feeuraging circumftance attending difeuflions of this 
kind, is, that as on one hand, after much labour employed 
in inveftigation, certainty cannot be attained, fo on the 
other, if it could, it would be attended with no practical 
benefit. For, of what confequence is it, whether the 
purgatory were an eaftern or weftern fable; whether it 
originated with a real St. Patrick, or was a fiftion of a 
later age? See Ledwiche’s Antiquities of Ireland, and 
Vallancey’s Profpeftus of a Dift, of the Irifh Language. 
PATRICK TOWN, a town of America, in the diftridt 
of Maine, and county of Lincoln, having 138 inhabitants. 
PA'TRICKSBOURNE, a village in Kent, about four 
miles eaft of Canterbury. It is noted by fome for the 
antiquity of its church, and a curious Saxon door-way, 
carved with a variety of figures ; a few paces further is 
Bifrons, built by Robert Bargrave, efq. or by his lady, if 
one may judge by this motto, which was placed upon it •, 
Diruta edificat uxor bona, cedificata dirv.it mala. —Not far 
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