The Reverend Oliver Noble, of the Belleville (Massachusetts) Congregational Church, delivers his sermon titled “Some Strictures upon the Sacred Story Recorded in the Book of Esther,” condemning Parliament’s violations of the colonist’s rights as Englishmen. He compares Persia’s king Xerxes’ Prime Minister Haman with George III’s Prime Minister Lord Frederick North, Queen Esther and the Jews with the colonies and the wise elder Mordecai with Benjamin Franklin.
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Magna Carta, Chapter 61
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Belleville Church: History.htm
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Some strictures upon the sacred story recorded in the Book of Esther, shewing the power and oppression of state ministers tending to the ruin and destruction of God’s people:–and the remarkable interpositions of divine providence, in favour of the oppressed; in a discourse, delivered at Newbury-port, North Meeting-House, March 8th, 1775. In commemoration of the massacre at Boston, March the fifth, 1770. / By Oliver Noble, M.A. and Pastor of a church in Newbury. ; Preached at the request of a number of respectable gentlemen of said town; and now published at the general desire of the hearers. ; [Four lines of quotations]
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