Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship of the Primitive Church, That Flourished Within the First Three Hundred Years After Christ, Vol. 1 of 2: With Remarks and an Appendix Lord Chancellor King was born at Exeter, in 1669, and, for some years, was brought up to his father's business in that city but having a strong inclination to learning. He laid out all the money he could spare in books, and devoted all his leisure hours to study. By the advice of his maternal uncle, Mr. Locke, he studied some time at Leyden, and afterwards entered at the Inner Temple. Raised by superior abilities to eminence, he obtained a seat in the House of Commons in 1699, for Beeralston, Devon. In 1708 he was made Recorder of London, and knighted by Queen Anne; the next year he was one of the managers of the House of Commons, at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell. In 1714 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and soon after was made one of the Privy Council. In 1725 he was created a peer, and succeeded Macclesfield, as Lord Chancellor. 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.