An Inquiry Into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship of the Primitive Church: That Flourished Within the First Three Hundred Years After Christ
New York: G. Lane & P. P. Stanford, 1841. First American Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's midnight brown cloth, good with light wear to spine ends and along rear outer joint, contents very good, a little toned. First published in 1691 anonymously, then in 1713 under his name, but with no subsequent editions either in the UK or the US between then and this edition, with an introduction by an unnamed American editor. King was born in Exeter in 1669, and educated at Exeter Grammar School. In his youth he was interested in early church history. The publication of this treatise engaged the interest of his cousin, John Locke, the philosopher, by whose advice his father sent him to the Leiden University, where he stayed for nearly three years. He entered the Middle Temple in 1694 and was called to the bar in 1698. He was appointed recorder of Glastonbury in 1705 and recorder of London in 1708. Made a Serjeant-at-Law, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1714 to 1725, when he was raised to the peerage as a Lord Justice and Speaker of the House of Lords. In June of the same year he was made Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, holding office until compelled by a paralytic stroke to resign in 1733. Rare in the trade. Good. Item #H32518
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