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208 ~~ VL—GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 1593—1718). 
and was unable to leave before August. During his illness 
he vowed to continue his efforts to the end of his life, and 
he did so; but with no immediate result. His subsequent 
subservience to Cromwell, his acceptance first of Pres- 
byterianism and then of Independency, and other weak- 
nesses of character led to his being called many hard names. 
But he was a brave and persevering man, whose memory 
's worthy of grateful record by posterity. 
Almost his last attempt at conciliation was in the form of 
a commentary on the Apocalypse. 
Durie died at Cassel in 1680 (where the Princess Hedvig 
Sophia gave him a comfortable retirement), almost despair- 
ing of the cause to which he had devoted his life, but not 
the least doubtful of its righteousness. And as the broader 
work of conciliation with Rome which Cassander and 
Wicelius had championed, and to which Grotius in his 
later years inclined, and which Calixtus had (at least in 
theory) professed to desire, was carried on in Germany by 
Molanus and Leibnitz, so the narrower and more obvious 
project of uniting Lutherans and Calvinists was kept in 
view in the kingdom of Prussia, and promoted also by 
Leibnitz. Here the house of Brandenburg had accepted 
the reformed faith, while its subjects were mainly 
Lutherans, and such a union was eminently reasonable. 
The union, which was promoted and to a great degree 
effected by Frederick William III. of Prussia in 1817, was 
the outcome of the previous efforts in which Durie had 
his share 48 
8 Cp. S. Cheetham: H. of the Ch. since the Ref., pp. 423 
foll.,, Lond., 1907. I am glad to think that my friend, Arch- 
deacon Cheetham, was able before his death to complete the 
rood work which Hardwick had begun of a short summary of 
the whole of Church history. Cheetham’s first volume on the 
Early Church, followed by Hardwick’s two on the Middle Age 
and the Reformation, and Cheetham’s final volume, H. of the 
Church since the Reformation, make up a compact series. 
This last volume is a particularly useful one.
	        
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