Note 172 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Mayhew had early sounded the alarm, and Thornton begins his Pulpit of the Revolution with a reprint of Mayhew's sermon in 1750 on Unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers (Boston, 1750; again, 1818; Brinley, no. 1,529). The controversy with Apthorpe, who was settled over Christ Church in Cambridge, as representative of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, began with his Considerations on the institution and conduct of the Society, etc. (Boston, 1763), to which Mayhew responded in his Observations on the charter and conduct of the Society, etc., designed to show their non-conformity to each other (Boston, 1763; London, 1763; Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. no. 383; Haven, p. 564). Dr. Caner, of King's Chapel, Boston, replied in A Candid Examination of Dr. Mayhew's Observations, etc. (Boston, 1763). Another Answer (London, 1764) was perhaps by Apthorpe. Mayhew published A Defence of his Observations (Boston, 1763), and a second defence, called Remarks, etc. (Boston, 1764; London, 1765), which was followed by a Review by Apthorpe (London, 1765). These and other tracts of the controversy are recorded in Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. nos. 378-391; in Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,433, 1,465; in Haven's list, pp. 562, 564, 565.