The history of Greenland [microform] : containing a description of the country and its inhabitants and particularly a relation of the mission, carried on for above these thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that country

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by  Cranz, David, 1723-1777

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THE
HISTORY
GREENOLF AND:
CONTAINING
DESCRIPTION
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THE COUNTRY,'
* •• INHAA Bir ID TANTS: *•
ITS
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AND PARTICULARLY,
A Relation of the Mission, carried on for above
thefe Thirty Years by the Unitas Fratrum,
AT
NewHerrshuth and Lichtenkels, in that Country.
DAVID GRANT
By Z.
Tranflated from the High-Dutch, and illuftrated with
Maps and other Copper-plates.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL.
I.
LONDON,
Printed forthe Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the
Gospel among the Heathen
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And fold byj. DoDSLEY, in Pall-mall; T. Becket and
P. A. DE HoNDTj and T. Can£LL, Succeflor to
A. Millar, in the Strand; W. Sandby, in
Fleet-ftrcet; S. Bladon, in Pater-noJter-row
E. and C. DillY, in the Ptvuliry} anJ at
Brethren's Chapel
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ADVERTISEMENT.
THIS
Work having been fo well received
abroad, that it is tranflating intomore than
one Language and there having been a public
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Call for it in this Country likewife; :h^ Soci-
ety among the Brethren, for the Furtherance of
of the Gofpei among the Heathen, thought it
incumbent upon them to procure a Tranilation
of it into EngUJhy and hope that the Header
will meet with Entertainment and Satisfa^on in
the Perufal of it. For the reft, they refer to
the Author's Preface. -
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PREFACE.
H
IT is row upwards of thirty years, fince the
Lord afforded to the renewed church of the
Unitas fratrwn the firfl opportunity of being
iubferfient to the converfion of the blind Hea-
then in various parts of the world. He hath
been with them herein, and given his benedi<5lioa
to the word of their teftimony, their prayers,
tears, fweat and toil, have not been withoutblef-
<iiig; yea, he granted them even a plentiful har-
Veft in this and the other place.
We, who then obferved them at a diftance,
read and heard the accounts they fent us from
time to time, indeed often not without pain and
compaflion,becaufeofthemany andhardtrialsthat
bcfel them; but moftly with tears of joy and
gr-'titudeforthe glorious viftory the Lord helped
them to obtain and were ourfelves thereby ani-
;
mated to {hew faithfulnefs in the fervice of the
Lord. Many a foul, that was ready to faint, waa
by this means put to iliame, and excited to fur
render itfclf anew to our Saviour, in fimplicity
believe on and cleave unto him.
When the faid accounts were read on this
monthly fo called prayer-days, or congregation-
days andwhenanyfriends, who lived at a diftancc
;
froirt the brethren's places, orothers who palTed
through, happened to be prefent at fuch a time
they were ftruckwith what they heard, and gene-
rally exprcffed their furprize at the brethren's not
publifliing any thing of that kind, which they
-Vol. L b iuppofed