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Chap. 20. they seem to have remov'd contingency from things; we restore it, and as often as second causes are such, we admit contingency and accident in events. Lastly, they seem to have brought in a violent force upon the Will; this is farr from us, who as we do assert Fate, so we reconcile it with the Liberty of the Will. For we so avoid the deceitfull Gust of Fortune and Chance, as that yet we do not force our Ship upon the Rock of Necessity. Is there Fate? That Fate is the first cause, which is so farr from removing the second and subordinate ones, that ordinarily, and for the most part, it acts not but by them. Now amongst these second causes is the Will, which never believe that God will either enforce or destroy. Here is all the Errour, and Cloud in this matter, no Man knowes or thinks that he wills what Fate wills, and yet that he wills it freely. For that God who created all things, Rh