Some strictures upon the sacred story recorded in the Book of Esther, [electronic resource] : 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 th general desire of the hearers. [Four lines of quotations].