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116 Name, against the new Senate of Divines. For those ancient and heretofore Conscript Fathers; do not at all oppose me, but that I may very freely use this word Fate, in the sound and true notion of it. But to return to the clearing of my Definition, I call'd it an inherent Decree; to shew that Fate is to be observed in those things to which, not in him from whence it comes. I added in moveable things; signifying thereby, that howsoever Fate it self is immoveable, yet it doth not destroy the infixed Nature, and proper motion of things but acts in a mild and gentle way, according as those marks and Characters do require which God hath engraven upon every thing: In causes (I understand second ones) necessary, necessarily; in natural ones naturally; in contingent, contingently. In respect therefore of things, it is no way violent or compulsory, but bends and leads on every thing, according as the Nature of it is to do or suffer. Rh