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

Or how easily might he have apprehended him, by laying wait for him in the Temple, when the child was publicly dedicated to God? But God hid these means and opportunities from him, they came not into his heart, because he rested and confided, as carnal Politicians use to do, in his own deep & cunningly contrived Stratagem.

Or how easily might he have apprehended him, by laying wait for him in the Temple, when the child was publickly dedicated to God? But God hid these means and opportunityes from him, they came not into his heart, because he rested and confided, as carnal Politicians use to do, in his own deep & cunningly contrived Stratagem.

This likewise also was a wonderful wisdom of God, to delay Herod from stirring in this matter, for about six weeks time, whereby opportunity was given to Joseph and Mary to perform all that the law required: For it behoved Jesus Christ to fulfil all righteousness and perfectly to observe the law of God: and he did so. But this is to be observed also; how the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ are complicated together; and though these actions were the fulfilling of Ceremonial Laws, yet they were acts of moral obedience to the first and second Commandments.

This likewise also was a wonderfull wisdome of God, to delay Herod from stirring in this matter, for about six weeks time, whereby opportunity was given to Joseph and Mary to perform all that the law required: For it behoved Jesus Christ to fulfill all righteousness and perfectly to observe the law of God: and he did so. But this is to be observed also; how the active and passive obedience of Jesus Christ are complicated together; and though these actions were the fulfilling of Ceremonial Laws, yet they were acts of moral obedience to the first and second Commandments.