The opening verse of the First Epistle of Peter claims that Saint Peter was the author ... Like the Epistle of James, this letter promotes the idea that suffering strengthens the believer in ...

Epistle to James Smith' was written c.1785 and first appeared in Burns's Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). James Smith (b.1765) was a draper in Mauchline and a ...