:— Robert Burns in Epistle To William Simson

In 1791, after William Wilberforce's attempt to outlaw the slave trade failed, Barbauld published her Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq.

Barbauld's most significant political texts are: An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts ( 1790 ), Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade ( 1791 ), Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation ( 1793 ), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ( 1812 ).

In the following year, 1791, after one of William Wilberforce's many efforts to suppress the slave trade failed to pass Parliament, Barbauld wrote her Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade.

A young Whig, William Lamb ( the future Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister ) wrote an ‘ Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin ’, which attacked Canning:

Anna Letitia Barbauld, author of An Epistle to William Wilberforce ( 1791 ), also came to live in Stoke Newington in 1802.

** An Epistle to William Hogarth

* William Hayley-A Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter

In 1744, he published his Epistle to Curio, attacking William Pulteney ( afterwards Earl of Bath ) for having abandoned his liberal principles to become a supporter of the government, and in the next year he produced a small volume of Odes on Several Subjects, in the preface to which he lays claim to correctness and a careful study of the best models.

* William Diaper-An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace

* William Pulteney-An Epistle from L --- to Lord C ------- d ( supposedly from Thomas Coke to Lord Chesterfield )

* An Epistle to George William Curtis, by James Russell Lowell ( 1874 – 1887 ), in Lowell's Poems

It is in the " Epistle to the Printer " in this 1612 work that Heywood writes about William Jaggard's appropriation of two of Heywood's poems for the same year's edition of The Passionate Pilgrim.

* Second Epistle of Peter and the General Epistle of Jude, 2nd edition, InterVarsity Press, Leicester / William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1987.

Hayley won the fame he enjoyed amongst his contemporaries by his poetical Essays and Epistles ; a Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter ( 1778 ), addressed to his friend George Romney, an Essay on History ( 1780 ), in three epistles, addressed to Edward Gibbon ; Essay on Epic Poetry ( 1782 ) addressed to William Mason ; A Philosophical Essay on Old Maids ( 1785 ); and the Triumphs of Temper ( 1781 ).

In his Epistle to William Simpson, Burns mentions Ramsay, Gilbertfield and Fergusson, as poets in whose company fame would be a pleasure.

Paul wrote that Jesus was " born of a woman, born under the law " and " as to his human nature was a descendant of David " in the Epistle to the Galatians and the Epistle to the Romans.

He is also traditionally associated with the Epistle of Barnabas, although modern scholars think it more likely that that epistle was written in Alexandria in the 130s.

The form, as opposed to the earlier letters of Paul, suggests that the author knew Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians or even that the Pauline epistles had already been collected and were circulating when the text was written.

It is generally accepted by scholars that the author of the Epistle of Jude was familiar with the Book of Enoch and was influenced by it in thought and diction.

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

The purpose of the Epistle, and to whom it was written, are matters of much speculation.

Traditional scholars have argued the letter's audience was Jewish Christians, as early as the end of the 2nd century ( hence its title, " The Epistle to the Hebrews ").

( The apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans was almost certainly forged based on this instruction.

Many scholars see this as an indication that this letter was written before the Epistle to the Galatians, where Paul formed and identified his positions on these matters.

" According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, " Paul's authorship was undisputed in antiquity and was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities.

Thus, there is a good basis for affirming the straightforward and traditional claim that the Epistle to Titus was authentically written by Paul.

In 1919 Karl Barth's commentary on Romans, The Epistle to the Romans, was the publication which is widely seen as the beginning of neo-orthodoxy.

" Those who read here " letter written to the Laodiceans " presume that, at the time that the Epistle to the Colossians was written, Paul also had written an epistle to the Laodicean Church.

Some scholars have suggested that this refers to the canonical Epistle to the Ephesians, contending that it was a circular letter ( an encyclical ) to be read to many churches in the Laodicean area.

This Epistle was written in Ephesus between the years 95 – 110.

The Epistle is traditionally held to have been composed by John the Evangelist, at Ephesus, when the writer was in advanced age.

It was in Shaftesbury's household, during 1671, that the meeting took place, described in the Epistle to the reader of the Essay, which was the genesis of what would later become the Essay.

In the Book of Common Prayer ( 1662 ), the text of the Authorized Version replaced the text of the Great Bible – for Epistle and Gospel readings – and as such was authorized by Act of Parliament.

According to the Epistle of Sherira Gaon, after the tremendous upheaval caused by the destruction of the Temple and the Bar Kochba revolt, the Oral Torah was in danger of being forgotten.

The ancient Syrian ( Edessene ) Church revered as canonical a Third Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, which is accompanied by a letter from the pastors of that Church, to which it is an answer.

Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

The New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews draws a distinction between the Jewish priesthood and the high priesthood of Christ ; it teaches that the sacrificial atonement by Jesus Christ on Calvary has made the Jewish priesthood and its prescribed ritual sacrifices redundant, along with the rest of the ceremonial acts of the Mosaic law.

As indications that the bread and wine are indeed changed to the body and blood of Christ, appeal is made to expressions used by Saint Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians, in particular his rhetorical question, " The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?

Nestorius was condemned and deposed by the First Council of Ephesus, which approved of the Second Epistle of Cyril to Nestorius ( which included a dogmatizing of " Theotokos "), and made no other dogmatic definitions.

In the New Testament, Paul the Apostle made Hagar's experience an allegory of the difference between law and grace in his Epistle to the Galatians ().

This priesthood was so named, according to a revelation, because Melchizedek " was such a great high priest " and ".. out of respect or reverence to the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent repetition of his name ..." This priesthood was thought to be the order of priesthood held by Jesus, and a distinction was made between the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods, which derives in part from the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose author argues that Jesus arose " after the order of Melchizedec, and not ... after the order of Aaron.

Alexander Pope made the Genius Loci an important principle in garden and landscape ( see bagh ) design with the following lines from Epistle IV, to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington:

Lectionaries are normally made up of pericopes containing the Epistle and Gospel readings for the liturgical year.

In Night, an Epistle to Robert Lloyd ( 1761 ), he answered the attacks made on him, offering by way of defence the argument that any faults were better than hypocrisy.

Similarly the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews equates Salem with Jerusalem and the same identification is made by Josephus and the Aramaic Targums.

# The promises of God made in the OT have now been fulfilled with the coming of Jesus the Messiah ( Book of Acts 2: 30 ; 3: 19, 24, 10: 43 ; 26: 6-7, 22 ; Epistle to the Romans 1: 2-4 ; 1 Timothy 3: 16 ; Epistle to the Hebrews 1: 1-2 ; 1 Peter 1: 10-12 ; 2 Peter 1: 18-19 ).

Because in the apostolic prophesying reference was often made to the Old Testament and the mosaic tabernacle, they cried unashamedly to be unconcerned with this either and they said the same of the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Revelation, where there is spoken with such emphasis about the tabernacle.

It has come down to us in a translation made, no doubt, under Cyprian's direction, and apparently very literal, as it abounds in Greek expressions ( Cyprian, Epistle lxxv ).

A translation into English has been made by Silvanus P. Thompson (" Epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, to Sygerus of Foucaucourt, Soldier, concerning the Magnet ", Chiswick Press, 1902 ); by Brother Arnold Charles Mertens (" The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet, A. D. 1269 ", with introductory note by Brother Potamian M. F. O ’ Reilly, York, 1904 ); and H. D. Harradon, (“ Some Early Contributions to the History of Geomagnetism-I ,” in Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity Journal of Geophysical Research 48, 3-17 pp. 6 – 17 ).