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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

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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.

See Bishop Horsley's Charge, 1790; Paley's and Grove's Moral Philosophy; Beattie's Elements of Moral Science; Evans's Sermons on Christian Temper; Watt's Sermons on Christian Morals; Mason's Christian Morals; H. More's Hints. vol. 2: p. 245; Gisborne's Sermons designed to illustrate and enforce Christian Morality.

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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Morality'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​cbd/​m/morality.html. 1802.
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