I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

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.