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 1, 2024.

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M. F.

3. The Holy Ghost, as a distinct person in the Deity is not a Principle demonstrable by reason, &c. to prove the Divine Authority of the Scri∣pture by the Testimony of the Holy Ghost, when we cannot otherwise prove a Holy Ghost, but by the Testimony of the

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Scripture, is to argue circular∣ly and absurdly, Ibid.

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Sir Ch. Wols.

1 Argument, Because the Blessed Spirit it self is not a common demonstrable prin∣ciple amongst mankind, &c. to go about to prove the Scriptures by any evidence a∣rising from the Holy Ghost must needs be visibly absurd, because there is no other

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way to prove that there is any such being as the Holy Ghost, but by the Scriptures themselves, Ibid.

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