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a Relation, but is fuper-added from the mere Will and Pleafure of the Creator.
The firft we ordinarily call Morality-, or Ethicks; becaufe im- mediately converfant about the Manners and Duties of Men to- wards one another; and towatds themfelves, confidered as Crea- tures of that Being. See Morality, Ethicks, &c.
The latter we call, by way of Eminence, Religion, as being the Rule of our Duty immediately to God himfelf. See Reve- lation.
The firft fuppofes a God, a Providence, a future State, Re- wards and Punifliments ,• the latter likewife fuppofes an immedi- ate Miflion from God himfelf, attefted by Miracles, tire. See Miracle.
Religion is particularly ufed for the fpecial Syftem of Faith and Worihip, which obtains in this or that Country ; in this or that Sect; this or that Age, &c.
In this Senfe we fay the Romifi Religion, the Reformed Religi- on, the Religion of the Greeks, the Mahometan Religion, Jewijb Religion, &c. See Jews, Mahometans, &c. under their pro-
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The Siamefe hold the Diverfity of Religions, i. e. the different Maimers of honouring God, to be pleafing to him ; inafmuch as they have all the fame'iObjed, all tend to the fame End, though by different Means. Claude.
The Sentiment of thefe Idolaters is doubtlefs more juft than 'that of our Zealots, who hold all but thofe of their own Reli- gion odious to God.
The fevera! Sects in Religion, fee under their proper Articles : See alfo Sect.
Religion, again, is applied to a military Order, confiding of Knights who live under fome certain Rule, &c. See Knight, Military, Order, <grc.
In this Senfe we fay the Religion of Malta, 'd-c. See Malta.
The Term is fometimes alfo ufed for a Convent.— Thus we fay, there are Religions of Men, /. e. Monks; Religions of Wo- men, i. e. Nuns.— There are new Religions eftablifhed every Day, i. e. new Monasteries built. See Monk, &c.
The Religion is ufed abfolutely for the reform'd in Trance; thus we fay, a" Ablancourt, and Dacier, were of the Religion.
RELIGIOUS, a Perfon engaged by a folemn Vow to the monaftic Lite; or a Perfon ihut up in a Monaftery, to lead a Life of Devotion and Auftenty; under fome Rule or Inftitution. See Vow and Religious Order.
The Male Religious we popularly call Monks ; the Females, Nuns. See Monk, &c.
M. Nicole obferves, that fome Domeftick Chagrins, and a cer- tain Pride, which leads People to abfeond when they cannot make
a Figure to their Mind, makes as many Religious as real Piety
He adds, that a Girl muft be made Religious for no other reafon, but becaufe me can't be married anfwerable to her Condi- tion.
A Religious can't make any Will.— By the Council of Trent, a Religious may reclaim his Vows within five Years. See Re- claim.
^ Antiently the Religious were all Laymen, and it was even pro- hibited them to take up Orders.— In 1557 the Parliament of Pa- ris made a difficulty of receiving a Bilhop of Laon to the Oath of a Duke and Peer, by reafon of his being a Religious: Yet a Religious being promoted to a Bifhoprick, is thenceforth fecularized or difpenfed from the Obfervation of his Rule. See Regular.
In ancient Deeds and Conveyances of Lands, we often find the Seller reftram'd from giving or alienating it, Viris Religiofs •oel Judaic, to Religious, or to Jews; to the end the Land might not tall into Mortmain. See Judaism and Mortmain.
In a Memorial directed by King John to his Vifcounts, they areorder'd to proclaim through their refpective Counties, that no Body, as they love their Bodies and Cartel, injute the Religi- ous or Clerks, either in Word or Deed ; on Penalty of being hang'd up on the next Oak.— Nul/i pent deligunt Corpora & Catalla fa a malum fariant vel dicant viris Religiofis vel Clericis.— Si quern
- nde attingere pofjivius ad proximum Quercum eum fufpendifaciemus.
Religious Order. See Order.
Moit military Orders pretend, likewife, to be Religious ; as 'hofe of Malta, who make Vows, &c. See Malta.
RELIQUA, the Remainder or Debet, which a Perfon finds himfelf a Debtor in, upon the balancing and liquidating an Ac- count.
Hence, Relicpitary, the Debtor of a Reliaua; as alfo a Perfon who only pay s piece-meal. — The Term Relifta is pure Latin. .^UQUAEi, a Shrine or Casket, in which the Relicks of REl Sa ' nt are keptp ^ ee S HRINE > Relick, tire. ^'UQUlJi, Relicks, in Antiquity, the Afhes and Bones , P e ad, that remained after the burning of their Bodies; j, *'** 'hey very religioufly kept in Urns, and afterwards laid
rVK in Tombs - See Funeral. k KtMAINDER, in Law, an Eftarc in Lands, Tenements, or the U ^r en to a ^ er ^ n at Second Hand, to be enjoy'd after or at firftH ° f a " ot,1,:r > to wnom the fame is given Immediately,
rn^n^v. 311 P rants Lands t0 ona for Term of Life, the Remainder toanotnerfor the Term of his Life; which Remainder may be eitner tor a certain Time, or in Fee Simple, or Fee Tail.
Spelman makes the difference between a Remainder and Reverb ton to conliit in this; that by a Reverfion, after the appointed ierm, the Eftate returns to the Donor, or his Heirs, as the pro- per Fountain ; whereas by Remainder it goes to fome third Per- fon, or Stranger. See Reversion.
Glanville obferves, that Bilhops and Abbots, in regard their Baronies are the king's Alms, cannot give any Part thereof by way of Remainder. See Bishop.
Remainder, in Mathematick's, is the difference; or that which is left after the taking of a leffer Number, or Quantity, from 3 greater. See Substraction.
REMARRYING, the repeating of a Marriage ; or the going through the Solemnities of a fecond Marriage. See Marriage.
Clandeftine and uncanonical Marriages ate deem'd null; and the Parties are to be re-married in form; at leaft to avoid Dif- putes.
Ic was aniiently exprefly forbid to re-marry in the firft Year of Viduity.--M. Bay/e obferves, that a Perfon who does not re- marry is aniwerable to the Publick for all the T'ime loft in his Vi- duity, or Widdower-hood. See Widow, Viduity, &c.
REMEDY, Remedium, in Phyfick, a Medicine, or Prepa- ration applied either internally or externally, for the Cure of a Difeafe See Medicine.
Emplafters, Unguents, Cataplafms, &c. are Topical Remedies. See Topical.
Mercury and the Bark are Specific Remedies. See Speclv ic.
Mineral Waters, and Atfe's Milk, and Country-Air, are ufu- ally the loft Remedies.
Salivation is fomctimes cill'd by way of Eminence, the Reme- dy. See Salivation.
When Remedies are ftuff'd with too many Ingredients, they load the Stomach with a flimy Mucilage, which fwclling does more hurt than good.
REMEMBRANCE, is when the Idea of fomething former- ly known, recurs again into the Mind, without the Operation of the like Object, on the external Senfory. See Memory and Reminiscence.
REMEMBRANCERS of the Exchequer, are three Officers, or Clerks therein. See Exchequer.
Thefe are the King's Remembrancer; the Lord Treafurer's Re- mejnbrancer ; and the Remembrasiccr of the Firfi-Fruits.
The King's Remembrancer enters into his Office all Recogni- zances taken before the Barons, for any of the King's Debts, for Appearance, or for obferving Orders; and makes out Pro- cefs againft the Colleftorsof Cultoms, Subfidies, and Fifteenths, for their Accounts.— AH Informations upon penal.Statutes are en- tered In this Office, and there all Matters upon Englijli B lis in the Exchequer-Chamber remain.— He makes the Bills of Com- pofition upon penal Laws, takes theStaltnent of Debts; has de- livered into his Office all manner of Indentures, Fines, and other Evidences whatfoevcr that concern the alluring of any Lands to the Crown : He every Year, in crafinn animarwn, reads, in open Court, the Statute for Election of Sheriffs, and gives them their Oath, and reads the Oath of all the Officers of the fame, when they are admitted.
The Lord Treafurer's Remembrancer, is charged to put the Treafurer and the reft of the Judges of that Court, in remem- brance of fuch things as are to be called on, and dealt in tor the King's Behoof— He makes Procefs againft all Sheriffs, Efchea- tors, Receivers, and Bailiffs, for their Account; Procefs of Fieri facias, &c. Extent for any Debts due to the King, either in the Pipe, or with the Auditors, makes Procefs for all fuch Revenues as are due to the King, by reafon of its Tenures— He alfo makes Record, whereby it appears whether Sheriffs, or other Accomp- tant6, pay their Prefers due at Eajler and Michaelmas.— He makes another Record, whether Sheriffs or othet Accompcauts keep their Days of Prefixion : All Eflreais of Fines, Iflues, and Amer- ciaments, fet in any of the Courts of IVeflminHer, or at the Affi- les or Seflions,jire certified into this Office, and ate by him de- livered to the Clerk of the Eftreats to write Procefs upon them,
The Remembrancer of the Firf. Fruits, takes all Compofitions and Bonds for Firft-Fruits and Tenths ; and makes Procefs againft fuch as do not pay the fame. See First-Fruits,
REMINISCENCE, is that Power of the Humane Mind, whereby it recoliefts itfelf, or calls again to its Remembrance fuch Ideas or Notions as it had really forgot : In which it differs from Memory, which is a treafuring up of things in the Mind, and keeping them there, without forgetting them. See Memory.
Hence Memory may be confidered as a continual Remem- brance ; and Remembrance, as an interrupted Memory. Sec Memory.
How near ra-kin foever the two Faculties may feem, yet they are generally found feparated ; lb that they who excell in the one, are defective in the other. See Recollection, Retention,^-.
The antient Platonifis were of Opinion, that all Learning and Knowledge conlifted in the Reminifcencc or Recollection of No- tices which had been in the Soul before its Union with the Bo- dy. See Platonism.
REMINISCERERE, the fecond Sunday in Lent; antiently thus called from the firft Word of the Introit of the Mafs faid for that Day, Reminiftere Miferationum tuarum.
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