OPINIONS ON SWEDENBORG. 401 of a lying impostor, one or the other of which Swedenborg certainly was. Sincerely desiring that you may be delivered from those chains of darkness and falsehood which bind the soul down for the judgment of that great day whose coming is so impiously denied. "I remain, Sir, "Your well-wisher, "J. G. PIKE." Certainly this taking shelter behind the fountain of mud is a very poor way of either convincing an adversary or exposing a sophistry or a falsehood. Why have we noticed these things? because they illustrate the state of opinion in reference to Swedenborg. What motive, it may be inquired, could animate a Christian Minister thus to calumniate and misinterpret the writings of a venerable and learned man ? What motive! who shall wind the arduous path of motive? Has the reader ever heard of DR. PYE SMITH, that rich example of Christian meekness, moderation, and scholarship, whose works, especially his "Scripture Testimony to the Messiah," and his "Four Discourses on the Sacrifice of Christ," many regard as among the most able and imperishable bulwarks of Christian truth? Yet his orthodoxy was repeatedly assailed: and in a recently published Life, a Biography, in which are beautifully preserved the features of that most excellent and amiable man, we have the account of an attack in spirit precisely the counterpart of D d 402 EPILOGOMENA, ETC. that we have noticed at so much length. Dr. Carson writes, "One of the most astonishing and detestable productions I have ever seen from the pen of a man professing strictly orthodox principles, is a paper from the pen of Dr. Pye Smith." "If the praise of Dr. Smith is in the Churches of Christ he must certainly be allowed to have a very considerable share of the wisdom of the world, for we see his praise is also high in the synagogues of Satan. This may be what the learned divine was looking for; at all events it was what might be naturally expected."* And the amiable Dr. Carson pursues the same tone of observation to great length. If we find Dr. Pye Smith thus assailed and denounced as heterodox, it may modify our surprise at the harsh things uttered of Swedenborg. * Life of Dr. Pye Smith, by John Medway, pp. 297, 298. Akenside, quoted Allegory, Natural History of Allegorical, were the Memorable Relations? All things go in pairs Page. 158 158 20 327 328 330 332 333 22 265 107 107 314 193 84 84 142 224 219 249 Bakewell's Physical Evidence of a Future Life" Bush, Professor, quoted Berzelius, quoted.. referred to.. Beecher, Rev. Charles, his " Spiritual Manifestations' Beautiful Parable. 346 1 8 344 276 68 346 Biography from the Dial Plate and the Main Spring Conder, Josiah, quoted Conviction, Faith without Selfhood in the. Catholicity of the Clouds and Cherubim, their Correspondences Comparative Anatomy. Comte, M., the Positivist, his system characterised Controversies of the Schoolmen 17 19 381 273 61 394 303 29 1, 175, 181 103 228 352 330 249 Correspondences.. 197, 353, 379 a Key wanted 368 Eclecticism, Syncretic and Latitudinarian Emerson, R. W., quoted.. Enchanted Palace, the. Epinay, Madame De Erskine, Lord, quoted Ernesti, Dr. 1 365 306 307 151 185 221 24 112 112, 113, 114 Evil Uses, what are? Event, the greatest in our Moral History Everlasting No, the, what is it? Eye, the Human the Window of the Temple Fanatic, what is a? Fall, the Doctrine of the. Swedenborg most distinctly recognises the Fathers, quoted on the impurity of Marriage Fear and Love, the two Theologies the Zero of Faith no motive to Action the Ages of . a Normal Element in the History of the Soul Feminine Experience of the Soul First Born, Poetic Dream of, the Creation and Educa- |