An essay towards ascertaining the sense of the much-controverted passage, in St. Peter's second epistle, [electronic resource] : from the 16th verse to the end of the first chapter, by a critical discussion of the whole; In a letter to a Man of Quality: In the Course of which the Lord Bishop of London's Comparison of the more sure Word of Prophecy, &c. is defended, against the Objections made to it by Reverend Messieurs Ashton and Cooke, Fellows of Eton College; and their several Solutions are examin'd: with An appendix, relating to the Difference between Moses and other Prophets in the xiith Chapter of the Book of Numbers; the Gradus Mosaicus of the Jews; and the Prophecy concerning another Prophet, in the xviiith Chapter of Deuteronomy. By a late fellow-commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge.