Date: 1756, 1766

"We should invite men into our religion, by representing to them the perfection of that primary law of God, reason or natural religion; by declaring the plainness and clearness of it to all attentive and well-disposed minds"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"The reason he gave us, the law of nature, was giving us all that was absolutely necessary."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Infidels "could hardly refuse the invitation, when we told them, our religion was the eternal law of reason and of God restored, with a few excellently useful additions"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[T]he gospel makes the very religion of nature, a main part of what it requires, and submits all that it reveals to the test of the law of reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Every ray of reason participates of the majesty of that Being to whom it belongs, and whose attribute it is"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"It is rebellion to refuse subjection to right reason, and a violation of the great and fundamental law of heaven and earth."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Let us hearken then to the original law of reason, and follow God and nature as the sure guide to happiness."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

A passion may be "rebellious and lawless"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[O]ur gracious and good Father makes now and then some friendly impressions upon our minds, and by representing in several lights the terrors and promises of the gospel, excites our hopes and fears"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)