John Trapp on Job 13:1

CHAP. XIII.

Verſe 1. LO mine eye hath ſeen all this] ſc. All thoſe effects of Gods providence, declared in the former chapter. I have not diſcourſed of Gods powerful and wiſe diſpenſations by rote, or without book; I have not blurted out what I believe not, or am not able to prove, as you have accuſed me; but I have ſpoken both that which I have ſeen (and what more ſure then ſight?) and that which I have heard and received from our Anceſtors and Doctors (to whom you have frequently referred me, for better information) mine ear that ſenſe of diſcipline, by which, not learning only, but life alſo entreth, Iſai. 55.3.) hath heard it, and underſtood it too; which he addeth for further aſſurance. Job was a Weighing Hearer, Mr. Clark in his life. as Mr. Bradſhaw was called the Weighing Divine: let us learn by his example heedfully to obſerve Gods works, laying up experiences, and diligently to liſten and learn the things that are taught us, or written for us by others, that we may grow to a right and ripe underſtanding of divine truths, and be able confidently to commend the ſame to others, as being upon ſure grounds. See Matth. 13.51, 52.