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"
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Date: 1756, 1766
"Every ray of reason participates of the majesty of that Being to whom it belongs, and whose attribute it is"
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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."
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Date: 1756, 1766
"Let us hearken then to the original law of reason, and follow God and nature as the sure guide to happiness."
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Date: 1756, 1766
Too much gold "gives the passions the commanding influence, and makes reason receive law from appetite"
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Date: 1756, 1766
A passion may be "rebellious and lawless"
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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"
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Date: 1756, 1766
"[T]he authority of a Being of infinite wisdom, and unchangeable rectitude of nature, had made such an impression upon their minds, that they laboured continually to acquire that consecration and sanctity of heart and manners, which our divine religion requires."
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Date: 1756, 1766
"[T]he wonderful and grand scene strikes powerfully on my mind, and causes an awful impression. "
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