An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.

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Title
An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
Author
Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
Publication
London :: Printed by Andrew Clark for Walter Kettilby ...,
1675.
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Subject terms
Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. -- Interest of reason in religion.
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Cite this Item
"An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70177.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

Pages

M. F. p. 48.

If all things be the result of matter, how comes a principle of reason to be con∣veyed

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into us, by that which had it not inherent in it self.

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Sir C. W. The unreasonable∣ness of Atheism, page 92. The casual conjunction of these atoms could not make the

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world, because it is made with a principle of Reason; and they could not have induced such a principle by chance, unless some way or other they had it inherent in them∣selves before.

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