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3 io VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
koping 1692, where he spent seven and eighteen years
respectively of energetic and successful work. He was
then archbishop for three years (1711 1714). He was
Charles XL s chief adviser in passing the new Church law,
and he had a considerable share in the other epoch-making
books of the period besides the hymn-book.
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Of his
hymns, as many as twenty-nine are retained in the present
hymn-book, and they are still very popular. On the other
hand, he was well known as a philologist, and as the
compiler of a Glossarium Sviogothicum and a History of
the Swedish Church, which are both evidences of his
patriotism a patriotism which he showed in his readiness
to make personal sacrifices in the straits to which Sweden
was reduced by war. He was of a less warm temper, and
had less appearance of feeling than Svedberg, but he was a
man of greater learning, good sense and piety.
The two bishops, Johannes Gezelius, father and son,
were benefactors, especially to the Church in Finland. The
eldest was Bishop of Abo after Terserus for twenty-five
years (1665 1690). He visited his extensive diocese seven
times, and was in all respects a good bishop of the school of
Rudbeckius. Amongst other things, he set up the second
printing press in Finland. His son succeeded him, and
remained in the see until 1713, when he had t,o retire before
the Russian invasion. Both were excellent officials, and
useful to the Church, especially through their
"
Bibel-
verk," a text and commentary for preachers. It appeared
slowly, the New Testament after the death of the older
bishop (1711 1713), and the Old after that of his son (1724
1728).
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It was edited by David Lund, Bishop of
Viborg, and then of Vexio.
A third John Gezelius, son of the second, was afterwards
bishop in Borga, which took the place of Viborg (1721
1733).
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Bishop Tottie has also written Haquin Spegel sdsom
kateket och homilet, 1890.
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For the Gezelius see Finska Kyrkans Historia, pp. 114-121
and 136-148, Helsingfors, 1892, by Elis Bergroth.
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