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The typology of Scripture : two volumes in one, complete and unabridged

Print Book, English, 196-?
Zondervan Pub. House, Grand Rapids, Mich., 196-?
2 volumes in 1 (420, 484 pages) ; 23 cm
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Book first: Inquiry into the principles of typical interpretation, with a view chiefly to the determination of the real nature and design of types, and the extent to which they entered God's earlier dispensations
1. Historical and critical survey of the past and present state of theological opinion on the subject
2. The proper nature and province of typology
Scriptural use of the word "type"
Comparison of this with the theological
Distinctive characteristics of a typical relationship, viewed with respect to the religious institutions of the Old Testament
3. The proper nature and province of theology
The historical characters and transactions of the Old Testament, viewed as exemplifying the distinctive characters of a typical relationship
Typical forms in nature
Necessity of the typical as a preparation for the fullness of times
4. The proper nature and province of theology
God's work in creation, how related to the incarnation and kingdom of Christ
5. Prophetical types or the combination of type with prophecy
Alleged doubles sense of prophecy
6. The interpretation of particular types
Specific principles and directions
7. The place due to the subject of typology as a branch of theological study, and the advantages arising from its proper cultivation
Book second: the dispensation of primeval and patriarchal times
Preliminary remarks
1. The divine truths embodied in the historical transactions on which the first symbolical religion for fallen man was based
2. The tree of life
3. The cherubim (and the flaming sword)
Sacrificial worship
The marriage relation and the Sabbatical institution
6. Typical things in history during the progress of the first dispensation Section 1: The seed of promise, Abel and Enoch
Section 2: Noah and the deluge
Section 3: The new world and its inheritors, the men of faith
Section 4:The change in the divine call from the general to the particular, Shem and Abraham
Section 5: The subjects and channels of blessing, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and the twelve patriarchs
Section 6: The inheritance destined for the heirs of blessing
Appendix A
The Old Testament in the New
The historical and didactic portions
Prophecies referred to by Christ
The deeper principles involved in Christ's use of the Old Testament
The applications made by the evangelists of Old Testament prophecies
Applications in the writings of the Apostle Paul
The applications made in the epistle to the Hebrews
Appendix B
The doctrine of a future state
Appendix C
On sacrificial worship
Appendix D
Does the original relation of the seed of Abraham to the land of Canaan afford any ground for expecting their final return to it?
Appendix E
The relation of Canaan to the state of final rest