s humours, and their effects.

15 Also the number of its members,
and bones, veins, arteries,
and nerves;

16 The several constitutions of
body, hot and dry, cold and moist,
and the tendencies of them;

17 How the soul operated upon
the body;

18 What its various sensations
and faculties, were;

19 The faculty of speaking, anger,
desire;

20 And lastly the manner of its
composition and dissolution; and
other things, which the
understanding of no creature
had ever reached.

21 Then that philosopher arose,
and worshipped the Lord Jesus,
and said, O Lord Jesus, from
henceforth I will be thy disciple
and servant.

22 While they were discoursing
on these and such like things,
the Lady St. Mary came in, having
been three days walking about
with Joseph, seeking for him.

23 And when she saw him sitting
among the doctors, and in his turn
proposing questions to them, and
giving answers, she said to him,
My son, why hast thou done thus
by us? Behold I and thy father
have been at much pains in
seeking thee.

24 He replied, Why did ye seek
me? Did ye not know that I ought
to be employed in my father's
house?

25 But they understood not the
words which he said to them.

26 Then the doctors asked Mary,
Whether this were her son? And
when she said, He was, they said,
O happy Mary, who hast borne
such a son.

27 Then he returned with them
to Nazareth, and obeyed them in
all things.

28 And his mother kept all these
things in her mind;

29 And the Lord Jesus grew in
stature and wisdom, and favour
with God and man.

CHAPTER XXII.

1 Jesus conceals his miracles,
2 studies the law,
3 and is baptized.

NOW from this time Jesus began
to conceal his miracles and
secret works,

2 And gave himself to the study
of the law, till he arrived to the
end of his thirtieth year;

3 At which time the Father publicly
owned him at Jordan, sending
down this voice from heaven, This
is my beloved son, in whom I am
well pleased;

4 The Holy Ghost being also
present in the form of a dove.

5 This is he whom we worship
with all reverence, because he gave
us our life and being, and brought
us from our mother's womb,
Glory to God,

6 Who, for our sakes, took a
human body, and hath redeemed
us, that so he might embrace
us with everlasting mercy, and
shew his free, large, bountiful
grace and goodness to us.

7 To him be glory and praise,
and power, and dom