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Jonathan Mayhew was born on October 8, 1720 at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard and was the son of Experience and Remember (Bourne) Mayhew.
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Popish idolatry a discourse delivered in the Chapel of Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, May 8, 1765, at the lecture founded. This book, "Popish idolatry a discourse", by Jonathan Mayhew, is a replication of a book originally published before 1765. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Jonathan Mayhew's "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission" has long been recognized as "the morning gun of the Revolution." Mayhew first presented this sermon on January 30th, 1750, the 101st anniversary of the execution of Charles I. In this sermon, Rev. Mayhew explained that Romans 13 does not require Christians to submit to tyranny and that, in fact, the Bible clearly places a duty upon Christians to resist tyrannical rulers. This widely read sermon was the source of the popular claim that "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God," and it set the stage for the American colonies to resist the British Parliament's unlawful encroachments upon their liberties.
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In Lorca’s Legacy, Jonathan Mayhew explores multiple aspects of the creative and critical afterlife of Federico García Lorca, the most internationally recognized Spanish poet and playwright of the twentieth century. Lorca is an iconic and charismatic figure who has evoked the admiration and fascination of musicians, poets, painters, and playwrights across the world since his tragic assassination by right-wing forces in 1936, at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. This volume ranges widely, discussing his influence on American theater, his much-debated lecture on the duende, his delayed encounter with queer theory, his influence on contemporary Spanish poetry, and other relevant topics. The critical literature on Lorca is vast, and original contributions are comparatively rare, but Mayhew has found a way to shed fresh light on his legacy by looking with a critical eye at the creative transformations of his life and work, both in Spain and abroad. Lorca’s Legacy celebrates the wealth of material inspired by Lorca, bringing to bear a sophisticated, theoretically informed critical perspective. This book will be of enormous interest to anyone interested in the international projection of Spanish literature, or anyone who has felt the fascination of Lorca’s duende.
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Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) had enormous impact on the generation of American poets who came of age during the cold war, from Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Creeley and Jerome Rothenberg. In large numbers, these poets have not only translated his works, but written imitations, parodies, and pastiches—along with essays and critical reviews. Jonathan Mayhew’s Apocryphal Lorca is an exploration of the afterlife of this legendary Spanish writer in the poetic culture of the United States. The book examines how Lorca in English translation has become a specifically American poet, adapted to American cultural and ideological desiderata—one that bears little resemblance to the original corpus, or even to Lorca’s Spanish legacy. As Mayhew assesses Lorca’s considerable influence on the American literary scene of the latter half of the twentieth century, he uncovers fundamental truths about contemporary poetry, the uses and abuses of translation, and Lorca himself.
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Excerpt from Seven Sermons Upon the Following Subjects: Viz; The Difference Betwixt Truth and Falshood, Right and Wrong; The Natural Abilities of Men for Discerning These Differences; The Right and Duty of Private Judgment, &C Concerning the love of our neighbour sermon VII. Upon what account the love of God is termed tbe fir/l and great commandment 131 On there two commandments (viz. The love of God and of our Neighbour) hang all tba law and tbc pro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Jonathan Mayhew was born on October 8, 1720 at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard and was the son of Experience and Remember (Bourne) Mayhew.
Mayhew graduated from Harvard College in 1744 and in 1749 received the degree of D. D. from the University of Aberdeen. A volume of sermons published in 1749 won him favor abroad and soon procured him the degree of D. D. from Aberdeen.
After graduating with honors from Harvard in 1744, Mayhew was called to the pastorate of the West Church, Boston, in 1747, and there remained till his death. He preached a rational and practical Christianity based on the Scriptures and not on Calvin; he defended the right of private judgment, rejected the Trinitarian view as early as 1755, and affirmed the doctrine of free will. With the American followers of Whitefield he had small patience. A true Puritan, he detested prelatical institutions and worked and wrote vigorously against them. As Dudleian Lecturer at Harvard in 1765 he delivered a sermon on Popish Idolatry. He roundly condemned the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for its policy of sending Anglican missionaries into the settled parts of New England, and censured in strong terms the much-discussed scheme of introducing an American episcopate. He composed three controversial discourses in support of his position, one of them being a reply to a pamphlet by Archbishop Secker. When aspects of his theology were attacked by a neighboring minister, he replied with A Letter of Reproof to Mr. John Cleaveland (1764), in tone so disdainful and caustic that after a century and a half its pages still sting. His Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers (1750) defended popular disobedience in cases where commands contrary to God's laws were enjoined. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, he preached a sermon, The Snare Broken (1766), in which he counseled the people to observe the laws, but at the same time to have a watchful care for their rights. Though the sermon bore a dedication to William Pitt, Mayhew did not scruple to write: "I will not meddle with the thorny question, whether, or how far, it may be justifiable for private men, at certain extraordinary conjunctures, to take the administration of government in some respects into their own hands. Self-preservation being a great and primary law of nature . .. the right of so doing, in some circumstances, cannot well be denied". Ten years afterward that "extraordinary conjuncture" which he had envisaged occurred, and he was not the least of those whose preparatory labors had helped to bring about the event. In June 1766 he had proposed that the Massachusetts lower house send out circular letters to draw the colonies closer so that they might the more effectively defend their liberties. Worn out by heavy labors, he died at Boston in his forty-sixth year.
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(Popish idolatry a discourse delivered in the Chapel of Ha...)
(Jonathan Mayhew's "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submiss...)
In politics, Mayhew bitterly opposed the Stamp Act, and urged the necessity of colonial union (or communion) to secure colonial liberties. He was famous, in part, for his 1750 and 1754 election sermons espousing American rights - the cause of liberty and the right and duty to resist tyranny; other famous sermons included "The Snare Broken, " 1766. His sermons and writings were a powerful influence in the development of the movement for liberty and independence.
Mayhew was a stanch upholder of civil liberty against arbitrary rule; his mind fed upon Milton, Locke, Sidney, and the Bible, and from these writings derived liberal theories in government.
Quotations:
"The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself. "
"People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them. "
"Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. "
"They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us. ’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God. ’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen. "
"To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights . .. is as great a treason as ever a man uttered. "
"Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity. "
"There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness. "
"The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. "
A vigorous thinker and ready writer, Mayhew was theologically in advance of his time; years afterward James Freeman of King's Chapel declared that Mayhew had anticipated him in all his theological conclusions. Mayhew's friendship was sought by Thomas Hollis of London, and by other distinguished Englishmen, and he was the intimate of such provincial leaders as Otis, Quincy, and Samuel Adams. John Adams had a high regard for him, said he was a "transcendent genius, " and that "To draw the character of Mayhew, would be to transcribe a dozen volumes". He had great learning and boundless industry. His enemies charged him with vanity and harshness and there is no doubt that he had a good deal of severity in his character, but since he was championing great causes, his friends largely glossed over these faults, and he was accounted a social and gracious person by those who knew him well.
On September 2, 1756 Jonathan married Elizabeth (Clarke) Mayhew who survived him with two daughters.