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Psalms, and the Epistles of St. Paul, which have since been printed at Copenhagen. He returned to Denmark in 1736, and died in 1758, aged seventy-three. About the year 1740 the Moravian missionaries, who had subsequently settled in the same inhospitable country, translated the Esquimaux Harmony of the Gospels into the Greenlandish dialect, which has also been printed. Other portions of the divine volume have been translated into the language of Greenland by the Moravian missionaries, but remain in MS.* In 1744 a part of the Scriptures was printed at Copenhagen, in 8vo., in the Greenland language, translated by Paul Egede, eldest son of Hans Egede, and author of a Greenlandish dictionary. It is dedicated to the king of Denmark. This was followed by the Four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, Copenhagen, 1758, 8vo.; and the New Testament, Copenhagen, 1766, 8vo. The translator died in 1789. After the death of Paul Egede, a translation of the New Testament was made by Mr. Fabricius, another Danish missionary, who had also resided in Greenland, but who had left the country a great many years. translation was printed at Copenhagen in 1799.‡

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The extraordinary zeal and perseverance of the venerable Hans Egede, and of his son Paul Egede, in their missionary labours, are fully detailed in Crantz's History of Greenland; Brown's History of the Propagation of Christianity among the Heathen; and the Missionary Register for 1821.

In SOUTH AMERICA the Moravian missionaries endeavoured to communicate the knowledge of the Scriptures to the Indians, both by frequent instruction, and by translating into the native dialects certain parts of the sacred volume: at Hope, on the river Corentyn, they compiled a Harmony of the Four Gospels in the language of the ARAWACKS; and at Bamley they provided a similar Harmony in the SARAMECAN dialect for the free (or runaway) negroes who had formed a settlement there, and who, after many predatory attacks upon the European settlements, had made peace with the government of Surinam.§

* Brown's History of the Propagation of Christianity, vol. i, p. 367; and vol. ii, Appendix, p. 639.

+ Adleri Biblioth. Biblica, pt. iv, Plut. 38, p. 115.

Brown's Hist. of the Propagation of Christianity, vol. i, p. 320. Second Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Appendix, p. 180.

§ Brown's Hist. of the Propagation of Christianity, vol. i, pp. 596, 617; and vol. ii, Appendix, pp. 634, 647.

The critical editions of the original texts, also, which were published during this century were numerous and important; and the names of Houbigant, Kennicott, and De Rossi, with those of Mill, Bengel, Wetstein, Griesbach, and other Biblical critics who have engaged in extensive and successful collations of the Holy Scriptures, will ensure the grateful acknowledgments of all who are capable of justly appreciating the value of their labours, and the important services they have rendered to the cause of revealed truth; not only by essentially promoting the interests of sacred literature, but also by establishing indisputably the general integrity of the original texts. For although an immense number of Hebrew and Greek MSS., transcribed by different persons, at several thousand miles distance from each other, at various periods of time through a series of many hundred years, have been examined and compared with each other, with the early versions, with ancient lectionaries and rituals, and with the quotations of Scripture made by early Jewish, Christian, and even heathen authors, and every sentence, word, letter, and circumstance noted in which they differ, not one variation or reading has been discovered by which a single essential doctrine has either been destroyed or altered. "They all [MSS. and versions, &c.] agree," says Bishop Marsh, "in the important doctrines of the Christian faith; they all declare with one accord the doctrine of the Trinity, and the doctrine of the atonement by Jesus Christ.'

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With this brief intimation of the importance of the critical in vestigations of the great Biblical scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries we now conclude the present work. In tracing the history and fate of the SACRED WRITINGS, from the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai to the conclusion of the last century, we have seen light emanating from the volumes of divine truth, when suffered to be viewed with unrestricted freedom; but when they have been withdrawn from popular and general perusal, the horizon has been obscured, and the people have "sat in darkness, and in the valley of the shadow of death." The pious reader will, therefore, join the author in hailing the indications of universal light and happiness afforded by the institution and unparalleled success of the British and Foreign Bible Society and other similar institutions, the increased energy of the venerable Society for promoting

* Marsh's Course of Lectures, pt. i, lec. 5, p. 86; and lec. 6, p. 119. Griesbachii Nov. Test. Græc. Proleg., sec. 1, p. 37.

Christian Knowledge, and the Biblical labours of the Baptist and other learned ministers and missionaries in the East; by which vernacular translations of the Scriptures have been rapidly multiplied, and extensively circulated: and in praying that "every nation, and kindred, and people, and tongue," may soon be favoured with the inestimable blessing of the word of God in their native tongue; for " THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT, CONVERTING THE SOUL; THE LAW OF THE LORD IS SURE, MAKING WISE THE SIMPLE," Psalm xix, 7.

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king of Denmark, i. 503; of Og-
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of Humphrey Monmouth, ii. 89;
of Andrew Forman, ii. 113; of
George Chrichton, ii. 113; of
Sixtus V., ii. 190; of an illiterate
priest, ii. 262; of Edward VI.,
ii. 272; of Queen Mary, ii. 274;
of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 287; of
Frederick II. of Denmark, ii.
368; of Robert Pasfield, ii. 422;
of J. Ferreira d'Almeida, ii. 484;
of Ernest, duke of Saxe-Gotha, ii. 486
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