Volume 2

The history of Greenland: 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 / by David Crantz. Translated from the High-Dutch.

  • Cranz, David, 1723-1777.
Date:
1767
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Credit: The history of Greenland: 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 / by David Crantz. Translated from the High-Dutch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    {ince I feel in truth that I have a corrupted foul: and body, I will-confide in him alone, becaufe his ‘blood is to.me.a medicine both for foul and body, &c. : _ At prefent I feel that lam poor, but at the tent time I feel alfo the great love of our Saviour in my heart. ‘That is my. daily prefervation and life. Befides this:I have'no fatisfaction. I had great joy in my John Ludwig when our Saviour took him home this winter to himfelf, becaufe to his laft moments he was continually pointing at the wounds of our Saviour in his hands and feet, &c. I] can never be happy but in the enjoyment of Je~ fus’s fufferings. When I cannot embrace him, or when he does not prefs me to his wounded breaft, I am not hap- py: but when I feel that, then I am well. And be- caufe his love is fo exceeding great, I have furrendered myfelf quite to him a as his own, and all I do thall be for him, &c. ~———I am indeed a poor needy man, and ‘hole I ed of nothing that could opprefs or trouble me, yet my de- fects and faults are numberlefs. He muft deliver me from them, and heal me. He has given me his body and blood out of unmerited grace; thereby my heart is enkindled, I have life 'everlafting within me, and I de- pend upon him that he will preferve it me, and daily for ply all my neceffities, &c. 3:) B. His blood alone makes us happy and chear- fale I therefore beg him, that he would look. upon heart as a veflel placed under his crofs, and fill it with many drops of his blood. For that feeling i in the heart is incomparably fweet, and it is often to me as if his fide was opened that very moment. This rejoices and enli- vens my heart; and this is my concern ‘wherever I am, whether in my houfe, on the rocks, or on the fea, &c.. I will alfo let thee know, that our Saviour has gi- ven us two children. We will befeech him to receive them as his own, and wll ftudy to bring them up for him, and to prefent them before his face, &c. Our Saviour having redeemed me with his blood, I do not chufe now to be faved any other way but through his blood alone. I befeech him to preferve his wounds ever new and precious unto me, and to warm and enliven my heart by his holy blood, I often feel | myfelf