Date: 1756, 1766

Reason is the first law of creation

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[T]he great and universal law of reason, [is] that law which God sent our Lord to revive and enforce"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

It "pleased God to send our Saviour into the world, to republish the law of reason by his preaching"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

We "do not act up to the eternal law of reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[W]e go down with the current of the passions, and let bent and humour determine us, in opposition to what is decent and fit"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

One may "disregard the moral faculty, and become a mere system of passions and affections, without any thing at the head of them to govern them"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[H]e seemed to live under a deliberate resolution not to be governed by reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"He would wink at the light he had, struggle to evade conviction, and make his mind a chaos and a hell"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

The "idea of a good character" includes "a continual subordination of the lower powers of our nature to the faculty of reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"As the instincts and passions were wisely and kindly given us, to subserve many purposes of our present state, let them have their proper, subaltern share of action; but let reason ever have the sovereignty, (the divine law of reason and truth) and be, as it were, sail and wind to the vessel of ...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)