An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War — John Shaqi
An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in WarMandeville, Bernard
Religion
An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War
Mandeville, Bernard
Honor
_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. _Proprætors_.
P. 174. l. 3. r. Rites.
The First Dialogue Between _Horatio_ and _Cleomenes_.
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