Date: 1756, 1766

Men had God's "original law of reason before he gave them the gospel"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[W]e have received from our Creator the eternal law of reason, which enables us to distinguish right and wrong, and to govern the inferior powers and passions, appetites and senses, if we please"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"I observed to Azora, that if things were so, and the law of reason was so perfect and sufficient, then I could not see that there was any want at all of the religion of favor, since that of nature was enough to confirm us in rectitude and holiness"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Why the law of grace at so great an expence--if the rule of reason can make us good here, and for ever happy hereafter?"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Revelation "restored to the world the law of reason, that is, true religion, when superstition and enthusiasm had established false religion"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

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

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)