An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.

About this Item

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.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. -- Interest of reason in religion.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70177.0001.001
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.

Pages

Page 24

Dr. More ibid.

The Combat betwixt the superiour and inferiour part of the Soul, the Flesh and the Spi∣rit, as they are termed in Scri∣pture and Divinity, is at last resolved into the ridiculous noddings and joggings of a

Page 25

small glandulous button in the midst of the Brain, encoun∣tred by the animal Spirits rude∣ly flurting against it. This little sprunt Champion called the Conarion, within which the Soul is entirely cooped up, acts the part of the Spirit, and the animal Spirits of the Flesh; and thus by the Soul thus in∣garrisoned in this Pine-kernel, and bearing her self against the arietations and jurrings of the Spirits in the Ventricles of the Brain, must that solemn Combat be performed which the Holy Ghost calls the war, &c.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.