The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

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.