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A common character belonging to type and prophecy, 99.-A further con-

nexion between them arising from the frequent combination of the one

with the other, 100.-This combination exists in three different forms.

-1. When a typical transaction is historically described, and the de-

scription, as being that of a prophetical circumstance or event, comes

to possess a prophetical character, exemplified in Ps. lxix. 9, xliv. 22,

Isa. xlix. 8, Ps. lxxviii. 2, (note,) Hos. xi. 1, Ex. xii. 36, 101-105.-2.

When the essential truths and principles embodied in some typical

transaction are taken up and applied in an accompanying prediction,
which at once explains the type, and expressly delineates to the eye
of faith the coming reality, 105.-Illustrated first in the case of Han-
nah's song, as compared with the Virgin's, 106-108,-then in the 2d
Psalm, including an account of the institution of the kingly government
in Israel, why it was at first opposed by God, and afterwards employed
as the occasion and form of conveying some of the clearest predictions
concerning the Messiah, 109-114.-3. When a typical transaction still
future, was contemplated as present by the eye of the prophet, and was
connected by him with a word of prophecy, which pre-supposed what
was typical, and carried forward the truths and principles embodied in
it to the concerns of Christ's kingdom, 115-122,-exemplified in 2 Sam.
vii., Ps. xlv., lxxii., and the latter portion of Isaiah's prophecies.-Ob-
jections against the double sense, 122-128.-Chief fault in most, who
oppose the double sense, ascribing another and lower sense to many
predictions, which directly point to Christ, exemplified in Isaiah's pre-
diction of the birth of Immanuel, ch. vii.,

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APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES BROUGHT OUT IN THE PRECEDING INVESTIGA-

TION, TO THE PROPER EXPLANATION OF THE TYPICAL MATTER OF OLD TESTA-

MENT SCRIPTURE,

164-290

Preliminary remarks, in which are stated some things necessary to be ob-
served in making the intended application,

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164-169

THE TRUTHS EMBODIED IN THE HISTORICAL TRANSACTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE

FALL, BEING THOSE ON WHICH THE FIRST SYMBOLICAL RELIGION WAS BASED,

170-181

All typico-symbolical institutions necessarily subsequent to the fall, 170-

172. But even then founded upon, and pre-suppose certain truths

brought out in the transactions connected with the fall.-These were,
1. The doctrine of human guilt and depravity, 172.-2. Of the holy
character of God, as loving righteousness and hating sin, 173.-Of sal-
vation by grace, 174.-Of the principle of headship,

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The original purpose of that tree, 181-182,-what truths symbolized in
man's exclusion from it,

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THE

TYPOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE

INVESTIGATED AND APPLIED.

PART I.

INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF TYPICAL INTERPRETATION, WITH A VIEW TO THE DETERMINATION OF THE REAL NATURE AND DESIGN OF TYPES, AND HOW THEY ARE TO BE ASCERTAINED AND APPLIED.

CHAPTER I.

THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THEOLOGICAL OPINION REGARDING THE TYPES, EMBRACING A SHORT HISTORY AND EXAMINATION OF THE VIEWS WHICH HAVE BEEN SUCCESSIVELY ENTERTAINED ON THE SUBJECT, FROM THE FIRST AGES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

FEW branches of theology have given rise to such variety of opinion among divines as that of types, and none, perhaps, has derived less. benefit from the new lights and improved methods of investigation, which have been introduced into theological study. Even those who have been perfectly at one on the fundamental doctrines of the gospel, and the leading principles of scriptural interpretation, have yet differed widely, not only in their methods of explaining particular types, but also in what they allowed to possess this character, and the degree of importance they attached to it. Extreme opinions have undoubtedly been held on both sides, nor have they yet entirely disappeared from the church, although there can be little doubt, that the progress of opinion has been steadily tending for many years, both to lessen the amount, and to depreciate the value, of the typical matter of Old Testament scripture.

VOL. I.-2

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