from West Church, in Boston, and continued in this station for the remainder of his life. On the day first appointed for his ordination only two clergymen of those invited were in attendance, owing, no doubt, to his ex- treme rationalism ; and even these ivio refused to act, and a councU, consisting of fourteen ministers, had to be convoked, June 17, after which the new candidate was duly installed in office. Mr. Mayhew's lilieral opinions were so unpopidar in Boston that he was for some time excluded from membership of the Boston Association of Congregational Ministers. In 1750 the degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by the University of Aberdeen. His publications excited great attention not oifly in this coimtry, but also in England. In 1755 he published a volume of sermons on the Doctrine of Grace. At the close of one of these sermons there is a note on the doctrine of the Trinity, which was offensive alike to those who did and did not endorse his general views. Subsequently the doctor himself appears to have regretted having ^^'ritten it, and he unsuccessfully en- deavored to prevent its being published in the London edition. Dr. Mayhew was at this time scribe of the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers. In 1763 the Rev. East Arthorp published a pamphlet entitled Considei-ations on the Institution and Conduct of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, occasioning a violent controversy, in which Dr. Mayhew bore a promi- nent part. Dr. IMayhew was extensively known through- out Great Britain, and numbered among his correspond- ents such men as Lardner, Benson, Kippis, Blackburn, and Hollis. He died July 9, 1706. Dr. Mayhew pos- sessed a mind of great acuteness and energy, and in his principles was a determined republican. lie had no lit- tle influence in producing the American Revolution. Among his best-known publications are the following: Seven Sei^mons (1749, 8vo) : — ,1 Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Poivers (1750, 8vo). See Mr. Bancroft's notice of this sermon, and his eloquent tribute to IMayhew, in his Hist. of the United States, iv, 60-62: — Thanksgiving Sernwn for the Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766): — Sermons to Young Men (1767, 2 vols. 12mo). See Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, by Al- den Bradford (1838); Riche, Bibl. Amer. Nova, i, 140, 145, 153 ; AUibone, Diet. Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Sprague, Annuls Amer. Pulpit, vii, 22 sq.
]VIayhe"W, Thomas, a Trinitarian Congregational minister, son of Thomas Mayhew, the governor of Mar- tha's Vineyard, was born in Southampton, England, about 1621 ; emigrated with his father to New lingland in 1631 ; resided for a few years in ■\\'atertown, Mass.; and in 1642 assisted his father in establishing a settle- ment at Edgartown, INIartha's Mneyard. Being deeply affected by the intellectual and moral degradation of the Indians, and possessuig good natural talents, and a con- siderable knowledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, he determined to devote himself to preaching to the natives of the island. He soon acquired their language, commenced his pulpit ministrations in 1646, and labored among them so faithfullj' that in 1650 he had 100 converts, and in 1662, 282, among whom were eight pawams or priests. In 1057 he sailed for England to obtain aid from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel ; but the ship in which he had taken pas- sage was lost at sea, and never heard of. Cotton Ma- ther says that " he was so affectionately esteemed by the Indians that many j-ears after\vards he was seldom named without tears." He wrote, in connection with John Eliot, Tears of Repentance, or a Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in Neiv Eng- land.—i^^ra.Q\iQ, A nnuls A merican Pulpit, i, 131 ; Drake, Diet. A merican Biography, s. v.
Maymbourg. See Maimiurg.
Mayne, Jaxnes S., a Presbyterian minister, was born in RavaUagh, near Coleraine, Antrim County, Ire- land, iu 1825, He received a careful academic educa-
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tion ill his native countn,-, and in 1853 came to America; graduated at Princeton College with honor in 1857 ; studied divinity at the theological seminary at Prince- ton, N. J. ; was licensed in 1859, and in 1860 commenced his labors at May's Landing, Atlantic City, and Abse- con, N. J., where he died, Aug. 30, 18C0. Mr. Mayne was a man noted for his consistent and devoted pietv. See WUson, Presh. Hist. A Imanac, 1862, p. 103. (J. L. S.)
Mayne, Jasper, an English divine and poet, was born in Devonshire in 1604. At the age of nineteen he entered Christ-church College, Oxford, and in 1631 se- cured the degree of M. A. He took holy orders, became a popular preacher, was presented by his college to two neighboring livings, and continued at the same time his residence in the university. He was made D.D. in 1646. At the time of Cromwell's usurpation, being tirmly de- voted to the cause of Charles I, he was deprived of his student's place, and soon lost both of his vicarages. His spirit, however, remained unbroken, and in 1652 we hear of his holding a public disputation with a noted Ana- baptist preacher. Subsequently he resided, until the Kestoration, as chaplain in the family of the earl of Devonshire ; in 1660 he was restored again to his liv- ing, was made chaplain in ordinary to the king, a canon of Christ Church, and archdeacon of Chichester. He died in Oxford in 1672. Dr. Mayne published in 1662 a translation of a part of Lucian's Dialogues, also several sermons and scattered poems.