“It is... no less a duty to resist and oppose tyranny in a prince, than it is to obey a good and just sovereign.”

About Jonathan Mayhew

Minister • American

Jonathan Mayhew was a prominent American Congregational minister and a key intellectual forerunner of the American Revolution. Ordained in 1747, he served as pastor of the West Church in Boston, where his sermons often...

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