A popular narrative maintains that Protestant iconoclasm in worship produced an impoverished aesthetic and symbolic imagination, but much is missed in this account. Historians have long described the Puritan imagination as ripe with biblical-symbolic imagery. We see this contemplative tradition on full display in Edwards’s Image of Divine Things and Baxter’s The Saints’ Everlasting Rest. Their method toward general revelation is marked by several commitments that are of interest to current discussions of ontology and biblical typology. Edwards and Baxter evince a Reformed realism toward the diverse abstract properties of creaturely objects, seeing their aesthetic, psychological and symbolic connotations as real, God-intended, and knowable. I recommend we retrieve specific aspects of Baxter and Edwards’ method toward general revelation, including their “interpretive maximalism” toward biblical imagery–viewing such imagery as archetypal and ontologically real, not merely a feature of the ancient literary world of the Bible. In retrieving this Puritan tradition of a biblical-symbolic world, we are best poised to enrich rising generations of evangelical youth with greater biblical literacy and the meaningful world they are devoid of. To “see and be patterned by biblical symbols … rather than eyes of Western rationalism” (J.B. Jordan) is an art we can recover and a true gift for the modern believer.