Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: MORTALITY

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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: MORTALITY

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MORAL
MORALITY Is that relation or proportion which actions bear to a given rule. It is generally used in reference to a good life. Morality is distinguished from religion thus: "Religion is a studious conformity of our actions to the relations in which we stand to each other in civil society. Morality comprehends only a part of religion; but religion comprehends the whole of morality. Morality finds all her motives here below; religion fetches all her motives from above. The highest principle in morals is a just regard to the rights of men; the first principle in religion is the love of God." The various duties of morality are considered in their respective places in this work.
MORAVIANS
MORNING LECTURES
MORTALITY
MORTIFICATION
MOSIAC DISPENSATION
MOSIAC LAW
MOSQUE
MOTIVE
MOURNING
MOURNING
MOYER'S LECTURES
MUFTI

Subjection to death. It is a term also used to signify a contagious disease which destroys great numbers of either men or beasts. Bills of Mortality are accounts or registers specifying the numbers born, married, and buried, in any parish, town, or district. In general, they contain only these numbers, and even when thus limited are of great use, by showing the degrees of healthiness and prolifickness, and the progress of population in the place where they are kept.