Chap. x3. An Expofitionupon the Book ofJ0 , Verf. 17. 469 reafon, and ordered with the clearnefs ofdifcret ion. Further,thevox afta Srav word(declaration)is conceived to be a law term,for be ípaaks after quoddam forenriatu wards ofpleading,whowill pleadwithme?l will make my declarari aotati dignam on.In law faits the Plantiffputs in a declarationofhis grievance:fo in port.rt,gtrx n . faith job,Near nowmyfpeech;andmy declaration withyourears,1 am hoc loco ad fora at the bar,let my declaration be read for the opening of my caufe.Pcrtinere pota- C'l4PJ7, With your ears. t%oIc,. The ear is the Organof hearing, and.that only we have no- thing to hear with but the ear; why then doth he fay, hear my de- claration with your ears? when if they heard it at all,. they mutt hear it with their ears. I anfwer, This is but anenforcement of what he Paid before, hear diligently, that is,hear withyour ears, be fare you hear, fet your ear to work upon it, take heedhow you hear,or, in hearing be lure you hearken. So in the newTe ftament often, he that hath an ear tohear let himhear, which is as much as this, let him hear with his ears, that is, let the ear do its work, and not be idle. Everyman that hath ears- hath not an ear to hear. Molt are like the Idolsof theheathen,who have ears, but hear not. Ail ears are That till Chrift bores them to a laving hearing of the word. Till the heart be opened theear is deaf,and cannot hear to purpofe. Further, take this rule. It is a heightning of the fenceofWhat wefay, when wep.ue the Organ and the all toge- ther, and joya themwhich cannot be fevered :So, when we hear one fay, 1fain it with mine eyes, we know he couldnot fee but with . his eyes ; yet thus he fpeaks to note the certainty and clearnefs of the light he had of Inch a thing. And thus, 1heard it with mine ears, I heard it certainly, fully, and attentively. Such is the meaning of Job in this admonition tohis friends,hear diligent- ly my jpeech, andmy declarationwithyour ears. Hence, (confideritlg the ftate of jobwhen he called for this hearing) Obferve, 7hat a man in affliEfion defares to be heard with muchattention. He that can hardly fpeak for attending upon his own pains, would fain have others attend to his fpeech; he would not have his words loft when they come drencht and bedewed with his own tears and blond. The affliction of others fhould moveus to hear them, and they that are in afflhEtion will be fines() put it as a motive why they fhould be heard.- And that's one reafon why times of af% tionare fuch fpecial feafons of prayer toGod. Ìs.
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