lications. He died at Cassel 26 Sept. 1680. His only child, a daughter, married to Henry Oldenburg [q. v.], succeeded to an estate of her father's in the marshes of Kent, valued at 60l. a year.
Baxter, Mede, Bishop Hall, and Robert Boyle attest Durie's learning, benevolence, perseverance, and moral worth.
Durie's works are: 1. Petition to Gustavus Adolphus in 1628. 2. ‘Hypomnemata de studio pacis ecclesiasticæ,’ 1636. 3. ‘A Briefe Relation,’ 1641. 4. ‘Motives to induce Protestant Princes,’ 1641. 5. Letter (on Confession of Faith) to Lord Forbes, 1641. 6. ‘Consultatio theologica … pacis ecclesiasticæ,’ 1641. 7. ‘A Summary Discourse [on] Peace Ecclesiasticall,’ 1641. 8. ‘A Memoriall concerning Peace,’ 1641. 9. ‘A brief Declaration [on Reformed Churches abroad],’ 1641. 10. ‘Motion tending to the Publick good,’ 1642. 11. Petition to the House of Commons (on True Religion), 1642. 12. ‘Certain Considerations,’ 1642. 13. ‘Epistolary Discourse [on Toleration],’ 1644. 14. ‘Of Presbytery and Independents,’ 1646. 15. ‘A Demonstration [on] Gospel Government,’ 1646, 1654. 16. ‘Model of Church Government,’ 1647. 17. ‘A Peacemaker without Partiality and Hypocrisie,’ 1648. 18. ‘Peace makes the Gospel Way,’ 1648. 19. ‘Seasonable Discourse [on] Reformation,’ 1649. 20. ‘Epistolary Discourse [on Israelitish Origin],’ 1649. 21. ‘A Case of Conscience,’ 1650. 22. ‘Objections … answered,’ 1650. 23. ‘Considerations since the Present Engagement,’ 1650. 24. ‘Just Re-proposals to Humble Proposals,’ 1650. 25. ‘A Pack of Old Puritans,’ 1650. 26. ‘A Disingag'd Survey,’ 1650. 27. ‘Epistolary Discourse [on Americans being Israelites],’ 1650. 28. Letters to the Lady Ranelagh concerning his marriage, 1650. 29. ‘The Reformed School,’ 1650. 30. ‘The Reformed Library Keeper,’ 1650. 31. ‘The unchang'd, constant, and single-hearted Peacemaker,’ 1650 (written in reply to Prynne's satire, ‘The time-serving Proteus and ambidexter Divine uncased to the World’). 32. ‘Conscience eased,’ 1651. 33. ‘Earnest Plea for Gospel Communion,’ 1654. 34. ‘A Summary Platform of Practical Divinity,’ 1654. 35. ‘A Demonstration [on] Gospel Government,’ 1654. 36. ‘Earnest Plea for Gospel Communion,’ 1654. 37. ‘A Summary Account [of] former and latter Negotiation,’ 1657. 38. ‘Capita de Pace Evangelica,’ 1657. 39. ‘The Earnest Breathings of Foreign Protestants,’ 1658. 40. ‘A Declaration of John Durie,’ 1660. 41. ‘The Plain Way of Peace and Unity,’ 1660. 42. ‘Irenicorum Tractatuum Prodromus,’ 1662. 43. ‘Consultationum Irenicarum Προδιόρθωσις,’ 1664. 44. ‘Axiomata Communia,’ 1671. 45. ‘De Veris Fundamentalibus,’ 1672. 46. ‘Le Véritable Chrétien,’ 1676. 47. ‘On Christian Union,’ 1676. In 1658 he printed his ‘Letters to Du Moulin on the State of all the Churches in England, Scotland, and Ireland;’ and in 1674 he published his extraordinary work on the Book of Revelation, ‘Maniere d'expliquer l'Apocalypse,’ in which, prompted by the views of Calixtus, he widened his scheme of union to embrace all christians, protestant and Roman catholic.
[Ayscough's Index to Sloane MSS.; Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. (Stubbs), pp. 111, 183, 310; Brook's Puritans, iii. 369; Gesselius's Hist. Eccl. ii. 614; Seelen's Deliciæ Epist. p. 353; Böhm's Englische Reform. Hist. p. 944; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 866, 961, 1043, iv. 578; Fasti, ii. 197; Frederick H. Brandes in the Catholic Presbyterian Review, July and August 1882; C. A. Briggs in the Presbyterian Review for April 1887, where is printed Durie's Summarie Relation of his journey in 1631–3 from his own manuscript; Benzelius's Dissertatio … Duræo, 1744; Burnet's Life of Bedell, p. 137; McCrie's Life of A. Melville, ii. 3, 177–8, 205–8, 448; Museum Helveticum, vol. ii. pt. vii. 1746; Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 1631–4; Reid's Westminster Divines, 1811; Christian Remembrancer, January 1855.]
DURIE, ROBERT (1555–1616), presbyterian minister, was second son of John Durie (1537–1600) [q. v.] There is no real reason to doubt this relationship, although James Melville, who was son-in-law of John Durie, and an intimate friend and companion of Robert Durie, never explicitly mentions it. He studied at St. Mary's College, St. Andrews; visited Rochelle ; stayed with James Melville, whose wife is assumed to be his sister; accompanied Melville to the parliament of Linlithgow in December 1585, and to Berwick in September 1586; became subsequently assistant to the schoolmaster of Dunfermline, and minister of Abercrombie in Fife in 1588, and of Anstruther in 1590. He was one of those who, on the appointment of the church, visited the island of Lewis in 1598 to further a scheme for civilising and christianising the people there, hitherto little better than savages, and rearing ten parish churches among them. The attention of the church was at this time directed with much interest to the highlands, where an almost unlooked-for desire for protestant ordinances was manifesting itself. In 1601 Durie visited the Orkneys and Zetland, and gave an account of his journey to the assembly of 1602. In 1605 Durie attended as a member the general assembly at Aberdeen, which the king had prohibited, but which
