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And not to insist on the ill influence that the Phoenician
An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
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- An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
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- Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
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- London :: Printed by Andrew Clark for Walter Kettilby ...,
- 1675.
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- Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. -- Interest of reason in religion.
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"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 17, 2024.
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and Chaldaick Philosophy had on the Iudaick Theology, though it be of easie proof, that their Planetary Deities and Teraphims sprung from thence; not to do any more but mention, that the chief errours of the Pharisees, Sad∣ducees, and Esseans took their rise from the Graecian Philo∣sophy, their Dogms being a mixture of Pythagorean, Pla∣tonick, Stoick, and Epicurean Notions.
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Judaick Church received from vain Philosophy: So long as the Judaick Theology continu∣od under its own native habit—it retained its primitive Puri∣ty—But whence sprung this (declension) but from the Phaenician and Chaldaick Phi∣losophy, touching Planetary Deities, and Daemons, called by the Phaenicians Baalim. We no way doubt but to demon∣strate, that the main errours of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and other Judaick Hereticks received their first formation, &c. from Graecian Philosophy, especially the Pythagorean.