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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...

44. Vid. notes on Is. 28:23–29.8 45. That natural things were ordered for types of spiritual things seems evident by these texts: John 1:9, “This was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world”; and John 15:1, “I am the true vine.” Things are thus said to be true in Scripture, in contradistinction to what is typical. The type is only the representation or shadow of the thing, but the antitype is the very substance, and is the true thing. Thus heaven is said to be the true
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