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for in this manner without any exception; and we lee no 
reafon why the fame method of removing objections 
thould not be allowed to the advocate for the genuinenefs 
of the books attributed to the pen of Mofes. Others 
have objected, that Mofes always fpeaks of himfelf in the 
third perfon. But this manner of writing is not peculiar 
to Mofes; it occurs in feveral of our belt hiftorians, fuch 
as Xenophon, Casfar, and Jofephus. Dr. Geddes thinks 
that the firll appearance of the Pentateuch, in its prefent 
form, was under the reign of Solomon, when he imagines 
the books were compiled from the journal of Mofes, and 
other ancient documents. Befides the Pentateuch, fome 
authors have attributed to Mofes the Book of Job, and 
eleven of the Pfalms, from the 90th to the 100th both 
inclulive. A few fragments of other books, of a myfteri- 
ous nature, pretendedly written by him, are alfo quoted 
by fome of the ancients; but of their fpurioufnel’s, the 
bell Jewilh as well as Chrillian critics have been long per- 
feClly fatisfied. Jofeph. Antic] . lib. ii. iv. Geddes's Pref. 
Pricjilei/'s Notes on Scripture. 
MOS'ES, f. in fea-language, a very flat broad boat, 
ufed by merchant-lhips, amongft the Caribbee Iflands, to 
bring hoglheads of fugar off from the lea-beach to the 
Ihipping, which are anchored in the roads. 
MOS'ES CHORENEN'SIS, an hillorian and geographer, 
was archbilhop of Chorene, now Kerona, in Armenia; and 
flourilhed about the year 4.62. He was one of the moll 
learned men of his nation, having Itudied Greek at 
Athens, from which language he made feveral elteemed 
verfions into the Armenian ; he was alfo well acquainted 
with the Syriac, and was a proficient in mufic and poetry. 
His principal work is a “ Hillory of Armenia,” from the 
deluge to the middle of the fifth century, written in his 
native tongue, and divided into three books and a great 
number of chapters. This work was firll given to the 
public, with a Latin verfion, by William and George, the 
fons of William Whillon, in 1736, Lond. 4.1-0. with a pre¬ 
face and appendix. Though intermixed with fable, it is 
a valuable piece of hillory, containing many narratives 
from the national records, not to be met with elfewhere. 
The fame author compofed an “ Abridgment of Geogra¬ 
phy,” which was firll publilhed at Amllerdam in 1668, 
and was added to the edition of the Hillory of Armenia 
above-mentioned. He likewife compofed fome Sacred 
Canticles, which are lung in Armenian, on the anniver- 
fary of Chrilt’s prefentation at the temple. Saxii Onomaji. 
MO'SES PO'INT, a cape on the call coall of Newfound¬ 
land : five miles fouth-well of Cape Bonavilla. 
MOSHAB'BEHITES, or Assimilatof-s, a feft of 
Mahometans, who allowed a refemblance between God 
and his creatures, fuppofingliim to be a figure compofed 
of parts, or members, either fpiritual or corporeal, and 
capable of local motion, of afcent and defcent, &c. 
MO'SHAK, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : twenty miles north-well of Doran. 
MO'SHEIM (John-Lawrence Von), a learned German 
Lutheran divine, and celebrated ecclefiallical hillorian, 
was defcended from a noble family, and born at Lubeck 
in the year 1694. When young, he cultivated an ac¬ 
quaintance with the mufes; and, though in more advanced 
life lie no longer wrote poetry, he difcovered the marks 
of his early talle in his various literary productions. His 
noble birth feemed to open to his ambition a fair path to 
civil promotion ; but his zeal for the interells of religion, 
his infatia’ole thirlt after knowledge, and, more efpecially, 
his predomiqant inclination forfacred literature, induced 
him to confecrate his admirable talents to the fervice "of 
the church. "The fame of his acquirements was foon dif- 
fufed over Germany, and the univerfities of that country 
vied with each other in loading him with literary honours. 
From various quarters he received invitations to profelfor- 
Ihips; and the firll which he appears to have accepted 
was from the king 01 Denmark, who was defirous of fe- 
curing the benefit of his inltruClions to the univerfity of 
Copenhagen. From this place he was called by the duke 
of Brunfwick to the univerfity Helmlladt, where he re¬ 
ceived the marks of dillinftion due to his eminent abili¬ 
ties; filled with applaufe the academical chair of divinity; 
was honoured with the character of ecclefiallical coun- 
fellor to the court; and prefided over the feminaries of 
learning in the duchy of Wolfembuttle and the princi¬ 
pality of Blanckenburg. When king George II. formed 
the defign of giving an uncommon degree of lullre to 
the univerfity of Gottengen, by filling it with men of the 
firll rank in the literary world, Dr. Molheim was deemed 
worthy to appear at the head of that celebrated feat of 
learning, in the quality of chancellor; and here he died, 
univerfally lamented, in 1755, in the fixty-firll year of 
his age. 
In depth of judgment, in extent of learning, in the 
powers of a noble and mafculine eloquence, in purity of" 
talle, and in a laborious application to all the various 
branches of erudition and philofophy, Molheim had cer¬ 
tainly very few fuperiors. He publilhed a Latin tranllation 
of the learned Dr. Cudworth’s IntelleClual Syllem of the 
Univerfe, illullrated with large annotations, which lhow 
that he poflelfed a profound acquaintance with ancient phi¬ 
lofophy and erudition. In the year which terminated his 
ufeful labours, he prefented the public with his “ Eccle¬ 
fiallical Hillory,” which was a confiderable enlargement, 
with great improvements, of a fmaller work in 2 vols* 
izmo. entitled “ Elements of Chrillian Hillory.” This 
latter work was intended almoll wholly for young llu- 
dents, as a compendium of their ledlures. It became very 
popular, and gave occalion to the Ecclefiallical Hillory, 
publilhed in the Latin language, entitled Inflituiiones 
Hi/lorice Ecclefiajlicce, See. 4to. This work is juftly cha- 
rafterifed by Dr. Maclaine, when he calls it, “ a hillory 
of the Chrillian church, compofed with judgment, talle, 
and candour; drawn, with uncommon difeernment and 
indullry, from the bell fources; enriched with much ufe¬ 
ful learning and feveral important difeoveries ; and con¬ 
nected with the hillory of arts, philolophy, and civil go¬ 
vernment.” To Dr. Maclaine the Englilh reader is under 
great obligations, for furnilhing him with an elegant 
tranllation of this work into his native idiom, enriched 
with his own judicious and valuable notes, and improved 
by ufeful chronological tables, which have been compiled 
with much attention and labour from the beft authors. 
This tranllation is entitled, “ An Ecclefiallical Hillory, 
Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of" Chrill to the 
Beginning of the eighteenth Century,” and has under¬ 
gone numerous imprefiions, in 6 vols. Svo. Dr. Molheim 
was alfo author of, 3. De Rebus Chriltianorum ante Con- 
llantinum, &c. 4to. 4. Hilloria Mich. Served, 1728, 4to. 
5. Dilfertationes Sacrae, 1733, 4to. and various other 
learned and ingenious illullrations of the facred writings, 
as well as fuccefsful labours in defence of Chrillianity, a 
lift of" which we have not been able to procure. He 
likewife publilhed a colleclion of Sermons, in the German 
language, which are faid to be excellent fpecimens of 
fuch kind of compofitions, and have induced fome writers 
to give our author the title of “ the Bourdaloue of" Ger¬ 
many.” Prefaces to Maclaine's Verfion of the Ecclcf. Hijt . 
MOSHEL'LY, a town of Bengal: twenty-eight miles 
fouth-eall of Kilhenagur. 
MO'SHO. See Moscho. 
MOSIGKAU', a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Anhalt Deflau : four miles louth-well of Deflau. 
MOSI'NA, a town of South America, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caraccas : fifteen miles fouth-well of Cumana. 
MO'SIO, a town, of Sweden, in the province of Ne- 
ricia: three miles fouth of Orebro. 
MOS'KANITZ, a town of Iltria: ten miles eaft of 
Pedena. 
MOS'KIRCHEN, a town of the duchy of Stiria: fix 
miles eall-fouth-ealt of Voitlberg. 
MOS'KOE; or Mos'kenes, an illand in the North Sea, 
near the coall of Norway, fituated to the fouth-well of 
Maelftrom. Lat. 67. 54. N. 
MOSKQVSKAI'Aj 
