Excerpt from Faith Working by Charity to Christian Edification: A Sermon Preach'd at the Last Episcopal Visitation for Confirmation, in the Diocese of Lincoln

The Second Epistle of St. Peter, from which I have taken my Text, had been long suspected, by Ancients as well as Moderns of great Note, not to belong to the Author, whose Name it bears when an illustrious Writer f, by a happy Discovery of the Causes of that Superfluity of Style, on which the Suspicion was founded, fully vindicated it to our Apostle.

I. We may now safely urge it as the genuine Work of St. Peter.

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