John Dury

Dates:

1596–1680

Birth Location:

Burial Site:

University:

Leiden

College:

BA:

1611

MA:

Churches Served:

Preacher, Wallon Reformed Church, Cologne, Germany (1624)
Minister, English Company of Merchant Adventurers, Ebling, Poland (1628)
Absent, Saxby, Saxby, Lincolnshire (1634)
Chaplain, The Hague (1642)
Minister, English Company of Merchant Adventurers, Rotterdam (1644)
Minister, Catherdral Church, Winchester (1645)
Deputy keeper, Library at St James Palace London (1650)
Member, Westminster Assembly (1645)

Years in the Assembly:

1645-1653

County Represented

Middlesex

Standing Committee:

Other Committees:

Exam of Paul Best,

Notes:

Delayed in attending

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Writings:

Primary Sources

The unchanged, constant and single-hearted peace-maker drawn forth into the world (1650) by John Dury
The reformed-school: and The reformed librarie-keeper. (1651) by John Dury
The reformed spirituall husbandman (1652) by John Dury
The reformed librarie-keeper (1650) by John Dury
The plain way of peace and unity in matters of religion (1660) by John Dury
The interest of England in the Protestant cause (1659) by John Dury
The effect of Master Dury’s negotiation for the uniting of Protestants in a Gospell interest in brief is this () by John Dury
The earnest breathings of forreign Protestants, divines & others (1658) by John Dury
The Dutch remonstrance concerning the proceedings and practices of John de Witt, pensionary, and Ruwaert van Putten (1672) by John Dury
The copy of a letter written to Mr. Alexander Hinderson (1643) by John Dury
Syllabus documentorum, quæ ab ecclesiis & magistratibus () by John Dury
Pacis evangelicæ quærendæ sectandæque ohdopoiēsis, sive viarum stratura (1657) by John Dury
Objections against the taking of the engagement answered (1650) by John Dury
Motives to induce the Protestant princes to mind the worke of peace ecclesiasticall amongst themselves (1639) by John Dury
Madam, ever since I had a resolution to make a change in my life by marriage … (1645) by John Dury

Secondary Sources - Biographical

Three Letters by Menasseh Ben Israel to John Durie: English Philo-judaism and the ‘Spes Israelis’ (1985) by Ernestine G E Van der Wall (About)
Thomas Barlow’s and John Dury’s attitude towards the readmission of the Jews to England [Part 2] (1960) by Mordecai L. Wilensky (About)
Thomas Barlow’s and John Dury’s attitude towards the readmission of the Jews to England [Part 1] (1959) by Mordecai L. Wilensky (About)
The Reformed School John Dury H. M. Knox (1958) by A. C. F. Beales (About)
The End of the Career of a Great 17th Century Millenarian – John Dury (1988) by Richard Henry Popkin (About)
Select memoirs of the lives, labours, and sufferings of those pious and learned English and Scottish divines: who greatly distinguished themselves in promoting the Reformation from popery, in translating the Bible, and in promulgating its salutary doctrines by their numerous evangelical writings, and who ultimately crowned the venerable edifice with the celebrated Westminster Confession of Faith (1827) by Thomas Smith (About)
Negotiations about church unity: 1628-1634; John Durie, Gustavus Adolphus, Axel Oxenstierna (1932) by Gunnar Westin (About)
Negotiations about church unity: 1628-1634; John Durie, Gustavus Adolphus, Axel Oxenstierna (1933) by Joseph Minton Batten (About)
Negotiations about church unity: 1628-1634; John Durie, Gustavus Adolphus, Axel Oxenstierna (1935) by Norman Nash (About)
Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines, Who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1. (1811; Reprint 1982) by James Reid (About)
John Dury’s apocalyptic thought: a reassessment (2010) by Kenneth Gibson (About)
John Dury: Reformer of Education T. H. H. Rae (1972) by H. M. Knox (About)
John Dury: reformer of education (1970) by Thomas H. H. Rae (About)
John Dury: Advocate of Christian Reunion J. Minton Batten (1945) by Wilbur C. Abbott (About)
John Dury: Advocate of Christian Reunion J. Minton Batten (1945) by (About)

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