Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.

His Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was publiJonathan Mayhewd in Boston and London and raised considerable opposition in England and America; Thomas Secker then archbishop of Canterbury wrote an Answer the following year. Mayhew was Dudleian lecturer at Harvard in 1765. The vigor of Mayhew’s sermon establiJonathan Mayhewd his reputation.