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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70177	An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1675 (1675)	Wing G798; ESTC R23394	20,014	66

Volumes of the Schoolmen are deplorable evidence of Peripatetical Depravations Van. Dogm p. 166. M. F. Their Scholastick Controversies are resolved into the Subtilties of his Aristotle's Philosophy ibid. J. G. These Scholastick Controversies are ultimately resolved into the Subtilties of his Aristotle's Philosophy V. D p. 167 M. F. Speaking of the Union of the Soul and Body saith How this can be is a Knot too hard for Human Reason to untie p. 490. J. G. Saith of the same It is a Knot too hard for our degraded Intellects to untie Van. Dog Ed. 2. p. 15. M. F. How a pure Spirit should be cemented to an earthly clod is a Riddle that no Hypothesis of Philosophy can resolve us about p. 490. J. G. How the purer Spirit is united to this Clod is a Riddle that must be left to the coming of Elias Van. Dog Ed. 2. ibid. M. F. To affirm it viz. the uniter of Soul and Body to be of a middle nature partaking of the affections and adjuncts of both is that which our reasonable Faculties will never allow us to subscribe to ibid. J. G. To suppose an uniter of middle constitution that should partake of some of the qualities of both is unwarranted by any of our faculties Van. Dogm p. 21. M. F. How that which penetrates a Body without giving a jog to or receiving any from it should either impress a motion upon or receive an impression from it is unconceivable p. 496. J. G. How that which penetrates all Bodies without the least jog or obstruction should impress a motion on any is by his own confession alike unconceivable Van. Dogm Ed. 2. p. 17. M. F. treats of the incomprehensibility of the union of the parts of matter p. 483 484 c. the substance of all which is taken out of I. G. in his Scepsis Scientifica p. 37 38 39. and his Answer to White p. 41 42 c. M. F. endeavours to shew the unconceivableness of the union of the Soul and Body p. 489 490 491 c. and again p. 495 496. all out of I. G. in his Scepsis Scientifica p. 15 16. M. F. The reproach which Iulian slanderously fastned upon the Primitive Christians that they had no ground for their Faith but that their wisdom was only to believe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 62. J. G. The charge of Julian the Apostate against the Primitive Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That their wisdom was to believe as if they had no ground for their Faith Of Reason p. 218. M. F. He is worse than an Enthusiast who affirms that the way to be a Christian is first to be a Brute p. 20. J. G. Saith that in the Enthusiastick Divinity The way to be a Christian is first to be a Brute Of Reason p. 223. M. F. Men being misled by their senses affections interests and imaginations do many times mingle errors and false conceits with the genuine Dictates of their minds and then appeal to them as the principles of truth and reason when they are indeed nothing else but the vain images of our Fansies and the conclusions of ignorance and mistake p. 241. J. G. Liable to be mis-led by our senses and affections and interests and imaginations so that we many times mingle errors and false conceits with the genuine dictates of our minds and appeal to them as the principles of truth and reason when they are but the vain images of our Fansies or the false conclusions of ignorance and mistake Of Reason p. 196 197. M. F. Whatsoever is proved by reason we are firmly to believe it though there be many things in the theory of it that are wholly unconceivable p. 198. J. G. What is clearly proved by reason ought to be believed though there are many things in the theory and manner of it unconceivable Philosoph Pia p. 82. Thus Sir I have given you some Instances among many of the faithfulness of M. Ferguson's Memory or of his Phrase-Book There is no doubt but they have furnished him as well out of other Writers but I have neither the humor nor the leisure to make further search after stoln Goods Only I cannot but take notice to you that this is the Man that divers of his Party glory in as their elegant and rational Writer and urge him as a great proof of the partiality and injustice of those who will not allow Non-Conformists to write either good Sense or good Language If either of these be in his Book you may ghess by this Specimen how little Honour is reflected upon them from it And if others would claim their Feathers as I have called for some of mine I believe he would have scarce enough left to cover theirs or his own nakedness I remember such Discoveries were once made upon another Champion of the Cause M. Hickman who had also furnished his Pack with Lace and Ribband borrowed from his Neighbours Shops 'T is pity but these men had Judgments to choose for then they would put better Books into the hands of their Admirers But when they take this Liberty I would advise them not to fall foul upon the Owners while they have their Goods in their hands nor to pick their Pockets then when they are confidently pleading their own Truth and Honesty against them If this Gentleman had let me alone I had likely never known this quality of his but unluckily he hath detected himself as he did that warned his Chapman to whom he had sold a stoln Horse not to let him drink of such a Water which was in a Ground out of which he had taken him Upon the whole matter Sir I desire you to deal gently with this Adversary lest unawares you should smite some of your Friends and among the rest Your affectionate Friend and Servant Ios. Glanvill Mr. SHERLOCK HIS ANSWER TO Mr. GLANVILL HIS LETTER SIR I Have received your Letter and thank you very heartily for it I was much puzzled before to give an account of the inequality of M. Ferguson's Style and Reasoning for his Words are sometimes proper and elegant his Arguments strong and weighty at other times his Phrase is barbarous and pedantick and his Reasonings childish and I always observed that he writ best upon some trite and beaten Argument where he had no Adversary but take him out of the road of Common Places and Phrase-Books and he could neither write consistently with himself nor any thing to the purpose This gave me a great suspicion of the man that he was a mere Collector and that his Book was made just as the Epicuraeans fansie the World was by the accidental Concourse of Atoms and may serve for a Confutation of that wild Hypothesis it being a plain Demonstration how impossible it is to make a good Book out of the best Common-Places and Collections unless a wise man have the composing of it Upon the receipt of your Letter which made so pleasant a discovery of the man I had the Curiosity