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14 shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.—Phil. v. 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.—And it is fixed so that their threshing is Christ’s threshing, Col. i. 24. And ye may well allow Christ threshing away mountains with a little finger of his body.———If with the finger of God he cast out devils, with the least of his fingers he may cast down mountains.

5. Lastly, All the mountains that stand before worm Jacob are burnt mountains, so they are far easier to thresh one would think.—The mountain of the Babylonish monarch that stood before the worm Jacob, and barred this way seventy years:—at length God set fire in the bowels of it, and makes it a burnt mountain: and then bids worm Jacob thresh, and it flies away with the wind,—Jer. ii. 25. Behold I am against thee O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyeth all the earth, and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain—By the death and resurrection of Christ, all the mountains that stand between worm Jacob and heaven are burnt mountains.———Christ has gone through the bowels of them with his fire, undone their consistance, burnt the rocks to lime; they are nothing now but the shape of mountains, with a thin scorched surface; they will give way at the threshing of worm Jacob, like the apples of Sodom, being touched, go to dust between one’s fingers.———Micah ii. 13. The breaker is come up before them; they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it, and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.—Nahum iii. 12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs; if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.—Compare Isa. xxvi. 19. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise; awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of erbs, and the earth shall cast out the