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52 A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,

nently independent witness in this case. He knew what the Old Theologies are, and could have had no conceivable motive in misrepresenting or disparaging any of their teachings. He had also read Swedenborg enough to pretty thoroughly master his system, or at least to know what he teaches on all doctrines of vital importance. What says this witness? We shall give his testimony on a few points only. Hear, first, his vindication of Swedenborg's perfect sanity — for some professedly Christian ministers have pronounced him a " monomaniac," and his theological system, " one vast, utter delusion."

" Sanity is the due exercise of our whole manhood — body, mind, and spirit — the frame, the intellect, and the will or affections; and it is obvious that this high sanity can only be in a state where sin, the great disjointer and deranger of humanity — sin, which is insanity, is excluded. But if we look at Swedenborg's career, we find all his life balanced and harmonized. If ever there lived a man who might ^aim to present to the world a completed being, he was the man." (p. 162.)

HIS VIEW OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED. Of the Athanasian Creed, as accepted by most Christians and published in not a few prayer-books, Mr. Hood says:—

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