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Biographical Sketch
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devoted to work in the Netherlands.

"Never, perhaps, was there such an example of zeal and perseverance as that exhibited by Duraeus, who, during the space of forty years, suffered vexations and underwent labours which required the firmest resolution and the most inexhaustible patience, wrote, exhorted, admonished, entreated and disputed: in a word, tried every method that human wisdom could suggest to put an end to the dissensions and animosities that reigned among the Protestant churches."[1] We have

  1. An Ecclesiastical History, by J. L. von Mosheim. London, 1842, ii, 180-2.