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

"[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)