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    The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)
    The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)
    The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)
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    The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)

    By John Dury

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) - John Dury

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      Title: The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)

      Author: John Dury

      Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15199]

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      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE REFORMED LIBRARIE-KEEPER ***

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      THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

      THE REFORMED LIBRARIE-KEEPER

      (1650)

      JOHN DURY

      Introduction by

      RICHARD H. POPKIN

      and

      THOMAS F. WRIGHT

      Publication Number 220

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1983

      GENERAL EDITOR

        DAVID STUART RODES, University of California, Los Angeles

      EDITORS

        CHARLES L. BATTEN, University of California, Los Angeles

        GEORGE ROBERT GUFFEY, University of California, Los Angeles

        MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK, University of California, Los Angeles

        NANCY M. SHEA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

        THOMAS WRIGHT, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      ADVISORY EDITORS

        RALPH COHEN, University of Virginia

        WILLIAM E. CONWAY, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

        VINTON A. DEARING, University of California, Los Angeles

        PHILLIP HARTH, University of Wisconsin, Madison

        LOUIS A. LANDA, Princeton University

        EARL MINER, Princeton University

        JAMES SUTHERLAND, University College, London

        NORMAN J.W. THROWER, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

        ROBERT VOSPER, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

        JOHN M. WALLACE, University of Chicago

      PUBLICATIONS MANAGER

        NANCY M. SHEA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

        BEVERLY J. ONLEY, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

        FRANCES MIRIAM REED, University of California, Los Angeles

      INTRODUCTION

      This work, with its quaint sentiments and its grim picture of what librarians were like in the mid-seventeenth century, is more than a curiosity. John Dury was a very important figure in the Puritan Revolution, offering proposal after proposal to prepare England for its role in the millennium. The Reformed Librarie-Keeper is an integral part of that preparation. To appreciate it one must look at it in terms of the plans of Dury and his associates, Samuel Hartlib and Johann Amos Comenius, to reform the intellectual institutions of England so that the prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation could be fulfilled there.

      John Dury (1596-1680), the son of a Scottish Puritan, was raised in Holland.[1] He studied at the University of Leiden, then at the French Reformed seminaries at Sedan and Leiden, and later at Oxford. He was ordained a Protestant minister and served first at Cologne and then at the English church in the West Prussian city of Elbing. There he came in contact with Samuel Hartlib (?-1662), a merchant, who was to devote himself to many religious and scientific projects in England, and with Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670), the leader of the Moravian Brethren, as well as with other great educational reformers of the Continent. The three of them shared a common vision—that the advancement of knowledge, the purification of the Christian churches, and the impending conversion of the Jews were all antecedent steps to the commencement in the foreseeable future of the millennium, the thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. They saw the struggles of the Thirty Years' War and the religious conflict in England as part of their development of providential history.

      In terms of their common vision, each of them strove during the decade 1630-40 to help the world prepare for the great events to come. Comenius started redoing the educational system through his textbooks and set forth plans for attaining universal knowledge. Hartlib moved from Germany to England, where he became a central organizing figure in both the nascent scientific world and the theological world. He was in contact with a wide variety of intellectuals and brought their ideas together. (For instance, he apprised Dury of the millenarian theory of Joseph Mede, which was to be so influential in the Puritan Revolution, and he spread Comenius's ideas in England.) Dury devoted himself principally to trying to unite

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