Date: 1741
"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."
preview | full record— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
Date: 1745
"They are plainly and explicitly published; easily understood; and in fair and legible characters writ in every man's heart; and the wisdom, reason, and necessity of them are readily discerned."
preview | full record— Mason, John (1706-1763)
Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: 1762
"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1765, 1770
"Till mighty conscience, whose prevailing call / Opes the dread volume of her laws to all."
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)
Date: 1765, 1770
"When of old / Arcadia's peaceful shepherds uncontroul'd / Their ranging flocks thro' boundless pastures drove, / Or tun'd their pipes beneath the myrtle grove, / Their laws on brazen tablets unimprest / Were deeply grav'd on each ingenuous breast, / No proud Vicegerent of Astrea reign'd, / Astre...
preview | full record— Wodhull, Michael (1740-1816)