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

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_
ERRATA Page 81. Line 6. read Influence. P. 94. l. 12. r. _Propr?tors_. P. 174. l. 3. r. Rites.

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 hitherto kept it to my Self, and never yet mention'd to any One, what my Sentiments are concerning the Origin of that charming Sound.
Hor. Let me hear your Reasons however.
Cleo. The Word Honour, is used in such different Acceptations, is now a Verb, then a Noun, sometimes taken for the Reward of Virtue, sometimes for a Principle that leads to Virtue, and, at others again, signifies Virtue it self; that it would be a very hard Task to take in every Thing that belongs to it, and at the same Time avoid Confusion