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DURY

Volume 7 · 107 words · 1823 Edition

JOHN, a Scots divine, who travelled much, and laboured with great zeal to reunite the Lutherans with with the Calvinists. His discouragements in this scheme started another still more impracticable; and this was to reunite all Christians by means of a new explication of the Apocalypse, which he published at Frankfort in 1677. He enjoyed then a comfortable retreat in the country of Hesse; but the time of his death is unknown: his letter to Peter du Moulin concerning the state of the churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was printed at London in 1658, by the care of du Moulin, and is esteemed to be curious.