The origin of the first Protestant mission to China, and history of the ... translation of the holy Scriptures into the Chinese language [by W.W. Moseley]. |
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accomplishment Althorpe Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of Durham Bishop of London British and Foreign British Museum Canton CHAM-HI Charles Grant Chaumont Chinese Lan Chinese Language Chinese manuscript Church ciety Circular circulating civil Committee copy DEAR SIR Divine DUNCLEM Earl Spencer Emperor England expence favour Foreign Bible Society GEORGE THOMAS STAUNTON guages Hardcastle heathen Holy Scriptures honour Jesuits John Owen Joseph Reyner labours Lettres Edifiantes London Missionary London Missionary Society Lord Lordship meeting Memoir MISSION TO CHINA Missionary Society Missions Orientales Missions to Africa mittee Montucci Morrison Moseley's Naples nations native obedient humble servant object opinion originated passage Pekin person pleasure preach present printed probable promoting Christian Knowledge religion religion in China reply REVEREND SIR Saam Tack Scrip sent Sir George Staunton Society for Missions Society for promoting Testament Tien or Chang-Ti trans vast empire Vulgate W. W. Moseley whole WILLIAM MOSELEY wish writer
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Page 111 - and bread to the eater, so shall his word be, that goeth forth out of his mouth; it shall not return unto him void, but it shall accomplish that which he pleases, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto he sent it.
Page 13 - of the very distant ages, in which the predictions themselves, and the history of the Divine Person predicted, were severally made public, and then quietly to disperse the work, among the
Page 13 - assure ourselves that neither Musselmans, nor Hindoos, will ever be converted by any Mission from the Church of Rome, or from any other Church; and the only human mode, perhaps, of causing so great a revolution, will be to translate into Sanscrit and Persian such chapters of the Prophets, particularly of Isaiah, as are indisputably evangelical, together with one of the Gospels, and a plain prefatory discourse, containing full
Page 14 - fruit, by its natural influence, we could only lament more than ever the strength of prejudice and the weakness of unassisted reason."*
Page 73 - the Rev. Joseph Hughes, one of the secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society. To
Page 87 - is able to build them up, and give them an Inheritance, among them
Page 93 - IMPORTANCE AND PRACTICABILITY OF TRANSLATING AND PRINTING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE;
Page 91 - which we did not publicly appear, a meeting was called, at the London Tavern, and that Society began with
Page 111 - in China, would prepare the way for missionaries to go over at some future time, with the prospect of great success.
Page 109 - have never found any difficulty in circulating the books which they have printed in Chinese; but on the contrary,