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with a Provisional Sketch of a Plan for General Protestant Union

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1684 SIMON PATRICK. Important 17th Century Work on Joy of the Lord's Supper. Influenced John Bunyan. Missionary with a Provisional Sketch ofSimon Patricks The Christian Sacrifice was one of the most influential devotional manuals of the late 17th and 18th centuries, serving as a cornerstone for Anglican Eucharistic theology. Writing as a high church divine (and later Bishop of Ely), Patrick provided a careful theological middle ground. He argued that the Holy Communion is a "commemorative sacrifice"not a literal re sacrificing of Christ, but a spiritual offering of praise, thanksgiving,