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54 A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.

all. It is a tower with the drawbridge ever up; claiming to be the wicket gate of Christianity." (p. 249.)

SOME CENTRAL DOCTRINES DISCUSSED.

Then he comes to some of the central doctrines of Christianity; and here we have his confession touching both the Old and the New interpretations:—

" But it is now necessary that we direct some attention to those views of the Divine Being and character which more especially belong to the province of Revelation as unfolded in the pages of Swedenborg. . . . Oh, if men would but form their ideas of God from his Word for themselves, rather than on those darkening and blackened glosses by which, from age to age, even the best men have sought to obscure, or, seeking to make clear, have really obscured, the Divine Being!

" Thus the doctrine of the Trinity has, to our thought, been purposely and intentionally surrounded by obscurity. We have been angry with any effort made to roll away the clouds, and to present it as in truth it is in Scripture — plain, intelligible, rational, necessary. . . .

"Are we Polytheists? At least, are we Tritheists? . . . Do Trinitarians think of Three Gods?

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