All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

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.