, in Latin Duroeus, was a divine of Scotland, in the seventeenth
, in Latin Duroeus, was a divine of Scotland, in the seventeenth century, who laboured with great
zeal to unite the Lutherans and Calvinists. He was bora
educated for the ministry in Scotland. In 1624 he
came to Oxford for the sake of the public library. Hovr
long he remained there is uncertain; for his strong inclination for his great work, and his sanguine hopes of success
in it, induced him to let his superiors know, that he could
employ his talents better by travelling through the world,
than if he was confined to the care of one flock. They
agreed to his proposals, and permitted him to go from
place to place, to negociate an accommodation between
the protestant churches. He obtained likewise the approbation and recommendation of Laud archbishop of Canterbury; and was assisted by Bedell bishop of Kilmore, and
also by Dr. Joseph Hall, bishop of Exeter, as he acknowledges in the preface to his “Prodromus.
” He began by
publishing his plan of union in Johannis Dursei irenicorum tractatuum prodromus, &c.
” The preface of this
book is dated at Amsterdam, October 1, 1661.