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

The means that Jesus Christ used, were those above named, Luk. 2.46. he was among the Doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And no doubt, such as taught in the Synagogues where he lived, had him to be their frequent, if not constant hearer. And that Jesus did read the Scriptures, there is no doubt to be made of it, because he hath commanded us to search the Scriptures; wherein he was so expert, that Luk. 24.27. beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded to them in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself. That Jesus meditated and prayed, which are two exercises of the Soul, so near of kind, that they are seldom asunder: especially when we meditate on Religion & the Scriptures And how abundant our Lord Jesus was in prayer, is greatly witnessed in the Gospels. Thus Jesus Christ hath set a pattern to all scholars and Christians, who all are the Scholars of Jesus, how we may increase in wisdom. Wisdom entereth into the Soul by degrees, so it entered into the soul of Jesus, because he increased in wisdom. We find two kinds of soul food, milk for Babes, & strong meat for men, Heb. 5.14. and Jesus Christ made use of both these kinds of Soul food, the Scriptures are the purest spiritual milk in the world, 1 Pet, 2.1, 2. the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby, such babes as are born of the Spirit by receiving into their Souls the ingrafted word, they relish no food but such as is grounded upon, and deduced from the Scriptures, & such was the food that Jesus fed upon, whereby he was filled with wisdom; we see that Jesus Christ hath sanctified Schools of learning, and all good means of education of youth in knowledge and wisdom, and did perfectly fulfil the Law of God therein for us.

The means that Jesus Christ us•d, were those above named, Luk. 2.46. he was among the Doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And no doubt, such as taught in the Synagogues where he lived, had him to be their frequent, if not constant hearer. And that Jesus did read the Scriptures, there is no doubt to be made of it, because he hath commanded us to search the Scriptures; wherein he was so expert, that