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2. No mans particular assurance obtained thus in way of Illumination by the Holy Ghost, is otherwise ur∣ged as an argument of convi∣ction to another, than by proposing the reasons, which our Faith is erected on. The
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.
- Author
- 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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way of such mens evidence is communicable to none, unless they could kindle the same rays in the breasts of others, which have irradiated their own, and therefore they must deal with others by produ∣cing the grounds of their con∣viction, not pleading the man∣ner of it, Ibid.
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Sir Ch. Wols.
The beginning of the se∣cond Argument.
Whatever evidence the Holy Ghost gives to any man to as∣sure him of the truth of any proposition, that evidence, as such, can never go beyond his own breast, nor can I ever
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prove any thing by it, as it is a Divine and infallible Evi∣dence, because such evidence is no way communicable to another but in an ordinary way: Nothing is visible to an∣other in such cases, but the reasons I can produce, the Di∣vine Illumination I have within my self to convince me, that such Reasons are co∣gent and prevailing can never be so demonstrated, as to con∣vince another that has no such Illumination, Ibid. p. 81