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not Obscurely neither) to offer violence to the will of Man. But the Genuine and true Stoicks, did never openly avouch these things. Or if any such matter, did fall from them (as it is possible enough) in their heat of writing and dispute; you shall rather find it in words, than in their sense and meaning. Chrysippus himself who first corrupted and Enervated that Masculine Sect, with the intricate niceness of Questions, he in Agellius sufficiently cleares them from attempting upon the liberty of the will. Nor doth our Seneca subject God to Fate (he was better advised) but (in a certain Mode of speech) God to God. For those amongst them, who came nearest to the truth, do by Fate sometimes understand Providence, and at others, God. And therefore Zeno when he defines Fate to be a power moving the matter according to the same respects, in the