2. The Epistle is the work of just that type of mind which is typical of James in the New Testament and in Church tradition. 3. The Epistle contains more reminiscences of the teaching of Jesus ...

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 ...