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 Threshing is a continued action, consisting of repeated strokes: It takes some time to thresh a sheaf, how much more to thresh a mountain? It is the ruin of many, that they are not able to endure, tho' a stroke or two would do the business, and would bring their matters to a good account; but they have no heart to be threshers. "Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing," James ii. 4. "He that shall endure to the end, shall be saved," Matth. xxiv. 13.

Lastly, Worm Jacob has many mountains to thresh. One wound is enough, we would think, to the worm; but there is plurality of them. The truth is, this world is full of mountains to the people of God; and when they have threshed one, they will have another to fall to, till they be out of this mountainous country. Having passed one difficulty, they will get another to grapple with till they be within the gates of the city. So they must have a threshing life-time of it, before they get there.

2. A surprising success, even as surprising as a worm threshing and beating the mountains small to dull, and then threshing them away. Such will be the issue of the encounters which the people of God now have with their difficulties in their way through the world, for which the text is plain. We take it up in these two. They will have,