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.
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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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M. F. ibid

Neither will I dwell upon his notion of the Conflict be∣tween the Flesh and the Spi∣rit, which the Scripture so emphatically mentions; namely, that it is nothing but the repugnancy of those mo∣tions,

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which the Body by its Spirits, and the Soul by her Will endeavour to excite at the same time in the glandu∣la pinealis, or little Kernel, where he supposeth the Soul to be harboured and seated: as if the whole conflict which the Holy Ghost so solemnly describes under the notion of a war betwixt the law of our members, &c. were no∣thing else, but that the Ker∣nel in the midst of the Brain being driven on one side by the Soul, and on the other by the animal Spirits—when the corporeal Spirits by their rude joggings of the glandu∣lous button, endeavour to excite in the Soul a desire of any thing, and the Soul re∣pels it by the Will she hath to avoid the same thing, this constitutes the war, &c.

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