Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation

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The principles now fully explained and illustrated in this work were first brought before the public in an article on Typical Forms by Dr. McCosh in the "North British Review" for August 1851. Mr. Hugh Miller wrote a lengthened notice of that article, describing it as:
"An article at once the most suggestive and ingenious which we have almost ever perused. The typology of Scripture has formed the subject of many a volume and many a discourse. It is one of the most obvious and rudimental truths of the theologian, that he who spoke in parable and allegory when he walked the earth in the flesh, spoke in his previous revelation ere he had yet put on the nature of man, by type and symbol; and that there is thus a palpable unity of style maintained between God in the Old and God in the Now Testament. Nay, some of the profounder theologians went further than this; and works such as the "Analogy" of Butler may be regarded in one point of view as critical Essays, written to establish a yet further identify between the style of Deity in Revelation and in Nature. "All things are double one against another," said the wise son of Sirach; and the celebrated "Treatise" of the most philosophic of English bishops may be deemed simply an expansion of the idea. Butler set himself to seek in the natural world the "double" of the revelation of the spiritual one, and to argue from the existence and fitness of the natural type the authenticity and genuineness of the spiritual anti-type. Such, in short, seems to be the principle of his "Analogy."
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