An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War | Page 5

other What must always keep up the Popish
Interest in Great-Britain
The most probable Maxims to hinder the Growth as well as Irreligion
and Impiety as of Popery and Superstition _When the literal Sense of
Words is to be prefer'd to the figurative_
What the Reformers might have foreseen What has been and ever will
be the Fate of all Sects

The Contents of the Third Dialog
The Beginning of all Earthly Things was mean The Reason of the high
Value Men have for things in which they have but the least Share
Whether the best Christians make the best Soldiers Remarks on the
Word Difference
An excursion of Horatio
Why Religious Wars are the most Cruel The Pretensions of the
Huguenot Army in France, and that of the Roundheads in England near
the same What was answered by their Adversaries What would be the
natural Consequeuce of such Differences The Effect which such a
Contrariety of Interests would always have on the sober Party
_Superstition and Enthusiasm may make Men fight, but the Doctrine of
Christ never can_
_What is required in a Soldier to be call'd virtuous and good_
_Instances where debauch'd Fellows and the greatest Rogues have

fought well_
What is connived at in Soldiers and what not Divines in Armies seldom
rigid Casuists How Troops may aquire the Character of being good
Christians Why Divines are necessary in Armies Why the worst
Religion is more beneficial to Society than Atheism Whether Preachers
of the Gospel ever made Men Fight The use that may be made of the
Old Testament An everlasting Maxim in Politicks _When the Gospel is
preach'd to military Men, and when it is let aside_
Whether Cromwel's Views in promoting an outward Shew of Piety were
Religious or Political _The Foundation of the Quarrels that occasion'd
the Civil War_
How Men who are sincere in their Religion may be made to Act
contrary to the Precept of it When the Gospel ought no longer to be
appeald to A promise to prove what seems to be a Paradox _What all
Priests have labour'd at in all Armies_
_The Sentiments that were instill'd into the Minds of the_ Roundheads
_The Use which it is probable, a crafty wicked General would make of
a Conjucture, as here hinted at_
_How Men may be sincere and in many Respects morally good, and
bad Christians_
_How an obsure Man might raise himself to the highest Post in an
Army, and be thought a Saint tho' he was an Atheist_
How wicked men may be useful soldiers How the most obdurate Wretch
might receive benefit as a soldier from an outward Shew of Devotion in
others That Men may be sincere Believers and yet lead wicked Lives
Few Men are wicked from a desire to be so _How even bad Men may
be chear'd up by Preaching_
Hyopcrites to save an outward Appearance may be as useful as Men of
Sincerity There are two sorts of Hypocrites very different from one

another

The Contents of the Fourth Dialogue.
An Objection of Horatio, _concerning Fast-Days_
_What War they would be useful in, if duely kept_
_How Christianity may be made serviceable to Anti-Christian
Purposes_
What is understood in England _by keeping a Fast-Day_
The real Doctrine of Christ can give no Encouragement for Fighting
_Instances, where Divines seem not to think themselves strictly tied to
the Gospel_
The Art of Preaching in Armies _The Use which Politicians may make
of extraordinary Days of Devotion, abstract from all Thoughts of
Religion_
_The miserable Nations, which many of the Vulgar have of Religion_
_How the Rememberance of a Fast-Day may affect a Wicked Soldier_
_The Power which Preaching may have upon ignorant Well-wishers to
Religion_
The Days of Supplication among the Ancients A general Show of
Religion cannot be procured at all Times What Conjuncture it is only
practicable in A Character of Oliver Cromwell
A Spirit of Gentility introduced among Military Men An improvement
in the Art of Flattery A Demonstration that what made the Men fight
well in the late Wars was not their Religion Why no Armies could
subsist without Religion A Recapitulation of what has been advanced in
this and the former Dialogue _Horatio's Concurrence_

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The First Dialogue Between Horatio and Cleomenes.
Horatio. I Wonder you never attempted to guess at the Origin of
Honour, as you have done at that of Politeness, and your Friend in his
Fable of the Bees has done at the Origin of Virtue.
Cleo. I have often thought of it, and am satisfied within my self, that
my Conjecture about it is Just; but there are Three substantial Reasons,
why I have