...feftly . jfeftly difcarddd ; viz.. The Epiftte to the Hebrews, the Epiftle of St. James, jhe Second of St Peter, the Second and Third of St. John, that of St. Jttde, and the Revelation. Yet thefe, tho' formerly doubted of in the Church, are allow'd to be Scripture...

...apoftolical times, but without alledging any proof. As the fécond epiftle of St. Peter, th« fécond and third of St. John, that of St. Jude, and the Revelations, (which have been called in queftion for a long time) are not in this verfion ; it is very probable that it was made before the...

...existence of copies even in the present day, that a version of the whole of the New Testament, excepting the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, that of St. Jude, and the Apocalypse, was actually published at Antioch, where the purest ofthe three dialects was vernacular...

...and the mixed or doubtful, composed the third. Amongst others, it was in this last class he placed the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, the episile of St. Jude, &c. The judicious and learned Eusebius, the father of ecclesiastical history,...

...less that such a book did not then exist. The circumstance therefore, that the Epistle of St. James, the second Epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and the Epistle of St. Jude had not been universally received, when Eusebius instituted his inquiries,...

...if the epistle had been of authority with him. As for the disputed catholic epistles, that of James, the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and that of St. Jude, we have no clear evidences what was his opinion of them. He had a great regard...

...by the Nazarenes, in the same rank, not only with the Apocalypse, but with the Epistle of St. James, the second Epistle of St Peter, the second and third of St. John, and the Epistle of St. Jude. Before I conclude my account of the authors, who have either described...

...Leyden, 1630, from EngMimftnuscvipts * 7 , the four epistles wanting in the old Syriac, namely, trie second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and the epistle of St, Jade 1 . u. A\\ these parts of the Syriac New Testament were cottected and published...

...of this kind, from its antiquity, and the situation of the Syrian Christians with respect to Judea. The Second Epistle of St. Peter, the Second and Third of St. John, and the Epistle of St. Jude, are not in the Syriac version, which may reasonably be accounted for,...

...the canon ; such as the Epistle of St. James, the Epistle of St. Jude, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Second Epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and the Book of Revelations.J Whence then did the church of England derive her canon of the New Testament...