Chap.13.. An Expoftion upon the Boo!¿ of Job. Verf. Y. 345 fenle,: and then it is coincident with the latter claufe, the eye is the underftand:ng. But rather take it literally, for the corporal eye,and fo the eye importeth experience and obfervation, which come in, orareentertained at the eye. Mineear bathheard. Thecar is the fenfe of Difcipline,knowledge enters at thisport, when that of the eye is thus upeither by a defeEt in nature,orby accident. Theywho are born blind,may be bred great Scholars, the ear can let in learning enough without the aftìftance of the eye. Hearing is a nearer fervant to theunderftanding then fee- ing is. Mine ear bath beard] The ear hears,either by inftruEtion front man,or by Revelation tramGod, of which Eliphaz fpake (Chap. 4.aa.) Now a thingwasfecretly brought tome, and thine ear received a little thereof. Here I conceive job intends the former, having learned what he here avouches,from men learned and knowing in the ways ofGod. Further, We may takeboth fight and hearing more largely; and then thewhole is no more but a vehement affirmation, that gobdid fully underhand what himfeif had afIiimed, as al fo what his friends had fo largely argued. As if he had Paid, Ivery well Vidi,' andivi, perceivewhat ye (rny friends) have¡aid, andindeed they arenot new intetlexi,afre- tome, experience bath taught me them before, and I haveheardof veratiunemcon- themoften theyare the receivedprinciples of wifeand godlymen, even ttnent am- filch as Ihavefeen, heard and underftood, before ever I convers'dor rezficatiunem changedaword with you. And fo thefe three expreffions, I have Zia ac f eadem feen,heard and underftood, are but an amplification of the fame resper tandem ching,either implying that he underftood them as clearly,as ifhis vocem e".6710° eye had feen them, or that whichway foever any mans under- nzmiam repetew flandingcan behelpt, his had, evenby the ear and by the eye, recur. Bold. both which had contributed their belt furtherance, to furnifla him with thole notions. Loe, mine eye bathPeen, &c. Hence Obferve. Firif, that our fenfes are inlets to the underflanding. Job placerh the underftanding latf, kline eyebath feen all this, and mine ear bath beard andunderftood it, or underftood it by the fervice of mine eye and of mine ear. The fenfes of the body are advantages to the mind : the eye cloth not fee for it fell, or Y y for
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