AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN AND APPLY SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL TYPES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. BY JAMES SLYE, POTTERSPURY. " Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ," Col. ii. 17. LONDON: MDCCCL. 7. PAGE On the Typical Character of the Old Testament Dispensation...... 1 The early Practice of Sacrificing not to be reasonably accounted for but by supposing it to have been Divinely appointed, with The Rites and Ceremonies of the Patriarchal and Mosaic Dispen- sations Typical in their character............. The Scriptural authority for believing the Old Testament Dispen- sation to be Typical, Figurative, and transitory in its nature.... 11-18 On the Definition of a Type-How the Types may be known-The extent of their application-Their arbitrary appointment and On the general resemblance of Types to their Antity pes............ 19 On what is included in the Scriptural authority for a Type On the extent of the application of the Types...... On the Sovereignty of the appointment of the Personal Types...... 29 On Types as distinct from Similes-Signs and significant Actions -Emblems-Comparisons, and Illustrations, and Allegories.... Of Signs and significant Actions.......................... The Rite of Circumcision................................................. A Virgin's Son promised to Ahaz. Moses slaying the Egyptian....... Ahijah meeting Jeroboam, rends the king's garment into Jeremiah breaking a potter's vessel Roel. MiP. 277210 Jehoash and the Thistle and Cedar...................................... 77 .................................................... ................................ On the Typical Persons mentioned in the Old Testament ..........92—207 Moses ................................................... David............................................................................... 179 ....................................... ....................... On the Types connected with the Antediluvian World and the Noah and the Ark ...................................................... The Deliverance of the Jews out of Egypt...... The Brazen Serpent................ On the Types employed in the Religion of the Jews The Feast of Tabernacles.......................... The High Priest and his Office.......... CHAPTER VII. On the Duty and Advantages of Studying the Types.......... 343 We may see in them a manifestation of the wisdom of God in his PREFACE. The following Work originated in a course of Lectures which the Author delivered to his own congregation on Sabbath evenings, without a thought of their being known beyond the circle for which they were prepared. In adopting the suggestion made to him to bring them before the public, in preference to another work to which his attention was at that time directed, the inducement was a conviction that of all the works extant on the Typography of Scripture, but few were entitled to an implicit reliance. There is scarcely one of the old writers in this department of sacred literature whose labours discover a judgment and discrimination equal to the exuberance of his fancy. Almost every person and object to which a fruitful imagination could find a resemblance in Christ has been made a type; and even those similes and parallels which have been justly a |