According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

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.