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An Enquiry Into an Origin of Honour · Bernard Mandeville — chapter 5 of 21 · ~317 words · public domain

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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

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