The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

6. Here see the time and place of their finding him, on the third day of their seeking ⟨image 17⟩for him, they enquired no doubt, of all their friends and acquaintance in the City where they used to resort, but could h•ar no tidings of him, which still augmented their sorrow, at last it came into their minds to go to the Temple, and seek for him there, it is much that they made that the last place of their enquiry for him. But God had wise and holy ends in ordering and over-ruling their motions to be as they were: when they came to the Temple they soon found him there, the Temple was his Fathers house, Joh. 2.16. and what place could they seek to find the Son in, more likely then in his Fathers house? there they find him. And what employment did they find him about, in his Fathers house? They found him in the place of Education and Instruction of youth, in the knowledge of the Scriptures and Religion, a very meet place & employment for a godly religious wise child, and an eminent example to all youth, to go of his own accord unto the Schools, where he might learn Instruction in the knowledge of God and of the Scriptures. It is far otherwise with too many of our youth, who when they are missing, must be sought for in Taverns, Ordinaries, or such like places of sin, vanity, and profaneness.

6. Here see the time and place of their finding him, on the third day of their seeking ⟨image 17⟩for him, they enquired no doubt, of all their friends and acquaintance in the City where they used to resort, but could h•ar no tydings of him, which still augmented their sorrow, at last it came into their minds to go to the Temple, and seek for him there, it is much that they made that the last place of their enquiry for him. But God had wise and holy ends in ordering and over-ruling their motions to be as they were: when they came to the Temple they soon found him there, the Temple was his Fathers house, Joh. 2.16. and what place could they seek to find the Son in, more likely then in his Fathers house? there they find him. And what employment did they find him about, in his Fathers house? They found him in the place of Education and Instruction of youth, in the knowledge of the Scriptures and Religion, a very meet place & employment for a godly religious wise child, and an eminent example to all youth, to go of his own accord unto the Schools, where he might learn Instruction in the knowledge of God and of the Scriptures. It is far otherwise with too many of our youth, who when they are missing, must be sought for in Taverns, Ordinaryes, or such like places of sin, vanity, and profaneness.