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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...

cabalists he could fault for what he held to be their exaggerated apprehensions of the signification of reality. And to the Reformed, Edwards responded with scriptural arguments, showing that the Bible itself sanctioned interpretation beyond explicit types. Edwards’ approach, as preserved most fully in “Images of Divine Things” and the notebook on “Types,” represented an important innovation in Christian typology and philosophy. Edwards attempted to free typology from the narrow correspondences of
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