Education
He graduated at Glasgow University in 1638, and was ordained minister of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, in 1643.
He graduated at Glasgow University in 1638, and was ordained minister of Kilwinning, Ayrshire, in 1643.
Ferguson belonged to the Fergusons of Kilkerran. He was so highly esteemed by the Earl of Eglintoun that, though appointed to the chair of divinity at Glasgow in 1661, he never left Kilwinning to enter on that office. In the controversy between the resolutioners and protesters he adopted the side of the former, but it is recorded that he confessed before his death that he was wrong.
Probably in consequence of the support of Lord Eglintoun, he was not interfered with at the Restoration in his ministry at Kilwinning.
He died 13 March 1667.
He was a member of the assembly of 1648, and declined calls to both Edinburgh and Glasgow.