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296 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
"
What make the subtleties of the schoolmen in the con
fessions of the Church? All the salvation of Christians
consists in believing and worshipping, as of old it was
gravely said of great Athanasius
"
(p. 50). He points out
that by over-definition in articles of faith
"
many pastors,
learned, pious and peaceable, will be excluded and quite
shut out
"
(p. 51). He expresses the doctrine of the Lord s
Supper in a simple and beautiful manner. It consists of
union with Christ, and union among ourselves, and "
that
as fellow-commoners we eate and drink the same living
bread and drink, to wit the flesh and blood of Christ to the
salvation of our soules
"
(pp. 51-2). Such is the main
purport of this
"
exhortation to brotherly communion "
by
a former Bishop of Salisbury, of which Durie was now the
ambassador to Sweden.
Durie was kindly received, and he worked hard and in
a most sanguine temper to get his message a hearing in
Sweden, where Axel Oxenstierna, whom he specially re
garded as his friend, had just returned from Germany.
He could not, however, obtain from the chancellor a general
letter of commendation to the Church, but the latter advised
him to turn his attention to the pastor of the Great Church
in Stockholm Jacob Zebrozynthius, and his acquaintance,
Johannes Matthiae, to the theologians of Upsala, and the
two strong Bishops of Strengnas and Vesteras. Zebroz
ynthius and Matthiae, seemed to him to fall in with his
plan. The Upsala professors received him with great
kindness and consideration, but they did not really encour
age him, having different ideas of what was fundamental in
point of doctrine, and they pointed out that compromise
was unsafe and led to untruth on one side or the other. At
Vesteras Rudbeckius also received him very kindly, but
told him bluntly that his plan was unpractical. At
Strengnas Laurentius Paulinus and his chapter agreed
with the professors of Upsala. Later he went for a journey
with the chancellor to his home, Tido, in Westmanland.
He again visited Strengnas, Vesteras and Upsala. He
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