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Chap. 19. But if you reduce it to its own Original, that is to say to Providence and God: Then I must affirm with the greatest Constancy and boldness, that all things which are by Fate, do necessarily come to pass. I added in the last place somewhat of the Order, Time, and Place, confirming what I had before asserted; that Providence is of all things taken together, but Fate is by way of distribution of particulars. By Order I understand a Series of Causes which Fate defines. By Place, and Time I understand that wonderfull and inexplicable power, by which all Events are ty'd to certain circumscriptions of place, and moments of time. Is it the Fate of Tarquine to be expell'd his Kingdom? Let it be done, but withall let Adultery precede. You see the Order: Is it the Fate of Cesar to be slain? Be it so; but be it also in the Senate-house, and at the foot of Pompey's Statue. You see Rh