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Viewed in connexion with the whole series of the divine
dispensations
by PATRICK FAIRBAIRN
PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, FREE CHURCH COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.
2nd Edition, 1854
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 into God's earlier dispensations.
Chapter I. Historical and critical survey of the past and present state of theological opinion on the subject. [Chapter I, from the 6th edition.]
Chapter II. The nature, use, and design of types considerd with an especial reference to what are commonly designated ritual types, or the symbolical institutions of Old Testament worship. [Chapter II, from the 6th edition.]
Chapter III. The same subject continued, but with a view more especially to the solution of the question, whether or how far the historical characters and transactions of the Old Testament may be regarded as typical?--Historical types.
Chapter IV. Prophetical types, or the combination of type with prophecy-alleged double sense of prophecy.
Chapter V. The interpretation of particular types--specific principles and directions.
Chapter VI. The place due to the subject of types as a branch of theological study, and the advantages arising from its proper cultivation.
The dispensation of primeval and patriarchal times.
Chapter I The Divine truths embodied in the historical transactions connected with the Fall, being those on which the first symbolical religion was based.
Chapter II The Tree of Life.
Chapter III The Cherubim and the flaming sword.
Chapter IV Sacrificial worship.
Chapter V The Sabbatical institution.
Chapter VI Typical things in history during the progress of the first dispensation.
Section 1. The seed of promise--Abel, 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, 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
B. The Old Testament in the New.
Section 7. Faith's Final
Portion, Or, The Hope
of The Inheritance from Volume 1, 1852 ed. (p. 264-325.)
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The dispensation with and under the law.
Chapter I. The divine truths embodied in the historical transactions
connected with the redemption from Egypt, viewed as preliminary to the
symbolical religion brought in by Moses.
Section
1. The bondage.
Section 2.
The Deliverer and his commission.
Section 3.
The deliverance.
CHAPTER II. The direct instruction given to the
Israelites before the erection of the Tabernacle, and the institution
of its symbolical services--the Law.
Section 1.
What properly, and in the strictest sense, termed the Law, viz, the
Decalogue -- its perfection and completeness both as to the order and
substance of its precepts.
Section 2.
The Law continued -- apparent exceptions to its perfection and
completeness as the permanent and universal standard of religious and
moral obligation its references to the special circumstances of the
Israelites, and representation of God as jealous.
Section 3. The Law
continued --further exceptions--the weekly sabbath.
Section 4.
What the Law could not do -- the covenant-standing and privileges of
Israel before it was given.
Section 5.
The purposes for which the Law was given, and the connection between it
and the symbolical institutions.
Section 6.
The relation of believers under the New Testament to the Law -- in what
sense they are free from it and why it is no longer proper to keep the
symbolical institutions connected with it.
CHAPTER III. The religious truths and principles embodied in the
symbolical institutions and services of the Mosaic dispensation, and
viewed in their typical reference to the better things to come.
Section
1. Introductory -- On the question why Moses was instructed in the
wisdom of the Egyptians, and what influence this might be expected to
exercise on his future legislation.
Section 2.
The Tabernacle in its general structure and design.
Section 3.
The ministers of the Tabernacle -- the Priests and Levites.
Section 4.
The division of the Tabernacle into two apartments -- the forecourt
with
its layer and altar of sacrifice -- the fundamental idea of sacrifice
by
blood, and the import of the three main points connected with it, viz.
the choice of the victims, the imposition of hands, and the sprinkling
of the blood.
Section 5.
The most holy place, with its furniture, and the great annual service
connected with it, on the day of atonement.
Section 6.
The holy place -- the altar of incense -- the table of shew-bread --
the
candlestick.
Section 7
The offerings and services connected with the brazen altar in the court
of the tabernacle sin-offerings -- trespass-offerings --
burnt-offerings-- peace or thank-offerings -- meat-offerings.
Section 8. Special rites and institutions chiefly connected with sacrifice -- the ratification of the covenant -- the trial and offering of jealousy -- purgation from an uncertain murder ordinance of the red heifer -- the leprosy and its treatment -- defilements and purifications connected with corporeal issues and childbirth -- the Nazarite, and his offerings -- distinctions of clean and unclean food.
Section 9.
The stated solemnities and feasts -- the weekly Sabbath -- the feast of
the Passover -- of Pentecost -- of Trumpets (new moons) --the day of
Atonement -- the feast of Tabernacles -- the sabbatical year, and year
of Jubilee.
CHAPTER IV.
Historical developements.
Section 1. The conquest of Canaan.
Section
2. The period of the judges.
Section 3.
The kingly institution.
Section
4. The prophetical order.
Section
5. The Babylonish exile and its results.
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