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 and wish it undone, because of the consequences that attend it.

6. Sixthly, it is objected, that if all events are necessary, it was as impossible (for example) for ''not to have died in the Senate, as it is impossible for two and two to make six. But who will say the former was as impossible as the latter is, when we can conceive it possible for to have died any where else as well as in the Senate, and impossible to conceive two and two ever to make six?''

To which I answer, that I do allow, that if all events are necessary, it was impossible for not to have died in the Senate, as it is impossible for two and two to make six: and will add, that it is no more possible to conceive the death of  to have happen’d any where else but in the Senate, than that two and two should make six. For whoever does conceive his death possible any where else, supposes other circumstances preceding his death than did precede his death. Whereas, let them suppose all the same circumstances