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  (DIVINE EMBLEMS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE) 1. EMBLEMS FROM THE STORY OF CREATION
  by A.B. Simpson
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While the Holy Scriptures are a literal and historical record of things,
that have actually occurred, yet underlying the narrative there is for
us a deeper spiritual meaning, which it is the province of faith, under
the teaching of the Holy Ghost, reverently to interpret and apply. While
there is danger of excess and extravagance in this direction, yet this
must not drive us to the opposite extreme of hard and cold literalism.
The Holy Scriptures have given us the true principle of such spiritual
interpretation, and there we learn both by divine statement and
innumerable examples, that “All these things were types, and are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
These underlying spiritual teachings are not confined to those things
which may be strictly termed types, but in a measure are linked with all
the events of the sacred record.

In the following addresses and reflections we will not attempt to
elaborate any rigid or complete system of typology, but will with
simplicity and freedom, endeavor to draw the most practical and
spiritual lessons which the Divine Spirit may enable us from the leading
types and events of the inspired record which have more or less
precisely a symbolical character and scriptural suggestiveness.

SECTION I. -- The Creation.

The first is the story of the creation. Recognizing, of course, the
literal and historical reality of the record, we have the authority of
the scriptures themselves to regard it as the figure of the new
creation, which the Divine Spirit is working out in the hearts of God\

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