Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter: Occasioned by His Recent Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of His Diocese Your Lordship will remember the case of Simon Magus. He was baptized, yet of him Peter declared, Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter for thy heart is not right in the sight of God He had received the outward and visible sign, but not the inward and spiritual grace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.