Mosheim's other important works on Church historj'- are his tract, I)e Rebus Christianorum ante Constantinum (Helmst. 1753), and Institutiones Historim Christianae Majores (1739), which is a fuU Church history of the first century : — ■Bisseiiaiiones ad Hist. Ecclesiasticam perti- nentes (new ed, Altona, 1767, 2 vols.) :— and Versuch einer unparteiischenKetzergeschichte (Helmst. 1746-48, 2 vols.). Among his other works are a Latin translation, with notes, of Cudworth's Systema Intellectiiale (Jena, 1738) : — six volumes of Sermons (1747). Mosheim's interpre- tations of Scripture are found in his Observationes Sacrce (Amsterdam, 1721) ; his Cogitationes in N. T. loco, select. (Hannov. 1726) ; his Erkldrung des I. Br, an d. Corin- ther (1741, new ed, by Windheim, 1762); his Erld. d. beyden Br. an d. TimotJi. (1755) ; and in his volumes of sermons, Heilige Reden. His exegesis is usually broad and learned, and betokens good-sense and sound erudi- tion. Mosheim was greatly distinguished as a preacher. His style was formed on the model of the English and French preachers, Tillotson and Watts, Saurin, Massillon, and Flechier, He has been compared to Fenelon for the graces of his style. His talents were of a very high order, his learning was immense, and his character was. exemplary. Says one: "In depth of judgment, in ex- tent of learning, in purity of taste, in the passion of eloquence, and in a laborious application to all the vari- ous branches of erudition and philosophy, he had cer- tainly very few superiors." "Mosheim's jioble charac- ter" saj's Hagenbach {German Rationcdism, p. 75), "is just as lovely as his learning icas thorough and compre- hensive. There is almost no domain of theology which he did not live to adorn and bless. . . , In the study of morals he, for a time at least, created an epach, and in the history of German pulpit eloquence a new period dates from him. He has been termed the German Tillotson, the German Bourdaloue. What Michaelis wanted in fine taste was largely present in Mosheim, and gave to all his learned works, as well as to his sermons, an in- describable charm. jNIosheim in faith was thoroughly orthodox, yet .mild and patient tmvards others, and in tills, respect really unlike many of that school." We think Hagenbach, however, goes too far when he calls Mosheim also " the father of modern Church history ;" as such no one deserves to be named except the learned and sainted Neander. He it was wlio first treated ec- clesiastical history as it should be treated. See Nean- der. See Doring, Gelehrie Theol. Deutschl. d. 18'^" u. 19'«" Jahrh. vol. ii and iv ; Gessner, Memoria J. L. Mos- hemii (1755); hWckQ, Narratio de Moshemio (1837); Rossler, Ueber Mosheim als Prediger; Sachs, Geschichte der Predigt. v. Mosheim bis Schleiermacher (Heidelberg, 1866) ; Dowling, Introd. Eccles. Hist. p. 192, 193 ; Schaif, Ch. Hist, i, 22, 223, ad passim ; Kahnis, German Protes- tantism, p. IIS; Bibl. 6-acni, Jan. 1851, p, 68; Christ. Remimbr. 1SC,l>. p. IC.
Mosheim, Ruprecht vou, a German religious enthusiast, was born in the first half of the 15th century. He believed himself commissioned of God to unite the four systems of religion — Papacy, Lutheranism, Zwin- glianism, and Anabaptism — prevalent during the Ee- formatory period, and to lay the foundation of a new Jerusalem. He rejected all prevailing creeds as anti- Christian, and prayed for another reformatory move- ment that might unite all followers of Jesus. To fur- ther this end he also entered into negotiations with the evangelical theologians, Osiander and Venatorius, in 1539. But these negotiations were soon broken off. On the part of Romanists he was disliked from the first, for he was severe upon the immoral conduct of the clergj', the withholding of the cup, and the sale of in- dulgences. This brought him into conflict also with the emperor Ferdinand, in whose presence he hesitated not to deliver an oration against the papacy. He also went to Vienna to speak to the papal nuncio Morone, in order to get an interview with the popa; but instead of being afforded an opportunity to go to Rome, he was called by order of emperor Ferdinand before the authorities of
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the convent at Hazcnau, and accused of heresy. The prince elector of Mentz had his work De vwnarchia et renuscenlia ChristiancB JiJci examined, and tlie ecclesi- astical judge condemning him guilty ofhcresy, Mosheim was put into prison, and there died in 1544.
Moshier, Absalom, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch, was born in the early part of the present century. He was lirst employed in secular oc- cupations, but after his conversion he preached for many years under the presiding elder, and in 18o7 entered the Black Kiver Conference, and was stationed at Antwerp ; in 1858 and 1859, at De Peyster; in 18G0-61, at Rens- selaer Falls; in 18G2-G3, at Waddington; in 18G4, at Richville; in 1865-6G, at liedtield. In 18G7, his health failing him, he was superannuated. lie died in Hamp- den, Ohio, June 9, 18G9. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, 1870, p. 13G.
Mosol'lam {WoaoWafioi:, Vulg. Bosoramus), a Graicizcd form (1 Esdr. ix, 14) of the Meshullam (q. v.) of the Ileh. text (Ezra x, 15).
Mosol'lamou (same as preced. Mo(To\Xa/<of v. r. M6(To\«/3nii', Vulg. Mosolamus), a Grajcized form (1 Esdr. viii, 44) of the Meshullam (q. v.) of the Heb. text (Ezra viii, 16).