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A Diſcourſe
Book I.

the Place. Shall Domitian be murther'd by his Servants? Let him fall, but let it be in that very hour, which he sought in vain to decline, viz. the Fifth, you see the time.


Chap. XX.

Its Difference from the Stoicks Fate; in four respects. That it offers no violence to the will. That God is neither a Copartner in, nor the Author of Evil.

Are you sufficiently apprehensive of these things young Man, or do you yet stand in need of a further and a clearer light? I (shaking my Head) a clearer Langius, a clearer said I, or you will leave me for ever in the midst of this Night. For

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