...that the evangelist's hearers were chiefly of the more illiterate sort, and that the discourse itself was confused, conceited and enthusiastic. The old term of reprobation reappears. So, like Chauncy himself, Mayhew offers the same antidote. In place of a God of wrath and terror, he would put the Scriptural God who is represented under the characters of a father and a king, the wisest and best ...