 Denounced by nonjurors for his latitudinarian views, Payne in 1691 published "An Answer to a printed Letter to Dr. William Payne, concerning Non-resistance and other Reasons for not taking the Oath".During the last two years of his life Payne preached a series of sermons on behalf of William Sherlock, who was then defending the dogma of the Trinity against Robert South.These sermons were published in 1696 as "The Mystery of the Christian Faith and oft-blessed Trinity vindicated".