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This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive, readable, and annotated text of the key typological notebooks of Jonathan Edwards: “Images of Divine Things,” “Types Notebook,” and Miscellany 1069, “Types of the Messiah.” These three works illustrate the way the eminent eighteenth-century theologian developed his theory of typological exegesis, a theory that helped him to understand the...

THE documents in this volume present Jonathan Edwards’ major statements on the exegetical discipline of typology. Traditionally, typology involved the exercise of matching biblical “types”—prophetic figures, events, or circumstances—in the Old Testament with their “antitypes” or fulfilling figures, events, or circumstances in the New. In Edwards’ hands, however, typology took on a broadened significance that comprehended not only Scripture
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