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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