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9- CONCILIATION MOVEMENT AND JOHN DURIE. 293
Morton, of Durham, Bishop John Davenant, my learned
predecessor; and Bishop Joseph Hall, his ordainer, all
wrote Latin opinions for him on the method and character
of the Pax ecclesiastica which they advocated.44
The ex
cellent Irish bishop, Bedell, the friend of Paolo Sarpi, and
the editor of the Irish Bible, actually gave him an annual
pension. In the spring of 1634 Diirie was at Frankfort
attending a great meeting of the ambassadors and divines
from the Protestant states, and obtained from the latter a
kind of circular to their brethren throughout Europe. He
spent the winter again in England and Scotland, and, I
suppose, at this time received his credentials from Arch
bishop Spottiswode.
45
In July, 1635, ne was attending
synods in the Netherlands, and in the same month, a year
later, he found his way to Sweden.
Durie came into the country on the invitation of
Johannes Matthias, whose acquaintance (as we have seen)
he had made in Germany. He brought introductions from
the Archbishops of Canterbury (Laud), St. Andrew s
44
These three opinions were first printed in 1634, without
name of place, under the title De pads ecclesiastics rationibus
inter evangelicos usurpandis, et de theologorum fundamenlali
consensu in colloquio Lips, inito, trium in ecclesia Angllcana
episcoporum Tho. Mortoni lohannis Davenantii et Ids. Halli
sententicB1
lo. Durceo traditce. This is in the Bodleian.
Another edition is entitled De pace ecclesiastica inter evangelicos
procuranda sententice quatuor . . . the fourth being ab ecclesice
in Gallia Pastoribus, quibusdam eximiis. At the end is a useful
syllabus of writings in favour of ecclesiastical peace : Amstelo-
dami, 1636. A third edition appeared in London, 1638. It was
translated into English in 1641, and printed at Oxford under the
title Good Counsells for the Peace of Reformed Churches, a
book which contains also
"
The opinion of James Usher, Arch
bishop of Armagh, with some other Bishops of Ireland."
Davenant s opinion was also printed in Latin (Cambridge, 1640),
and in English (Lond., 1641), as an introduction to his Ad
fraternam communionem inter evangelicos ecclesias restauran-
dam adhortatio = An exhortation to brotherly communion
betwixt the Protestant Churches. I
quote from the English, of
which I
possess a copy.
45
Cp. Grubb : Eccl. Hist, of Scotland, Vol. 2, p. 371.
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