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86. How dost thou mean O Father

87. Thus, O Son, the whole Nature and Composition of those living things called Men, is very prone to Maliciousness, and is very familiar, and as it were nourished with it, and therefore is delighted with it Now this might if it shall come to learn or know, that the world was once made, and all things are done according to Provicence and Necessity, Destiny, or Fate, bearing Rule over all: Will he not be much worse than himself despising the whole, because it was made. Ad if he may lay the cause of Evil, upon Fate or Destiny, he will never abstain from any evil work.

88. Wherefore we must look mainly to such kinde of people, that being in ignorance they may be less evil for fear of that which