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,
An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
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- An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
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- Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
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- 1675.
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- Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. -- Interest of reason in religion.
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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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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
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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.