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

"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

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

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1757

"Now the imagination is the most extensive province of pleasure and pain, as it is the region of our fears and our hopes, and of all our passions that are connected with them; and whatever is calculated to affect the imagination with these commanding ideas, by force of any original natural impres...

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)