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16 you, infallibly you will get it down at length:—Paul says this, while he was threshing it, Rom. vii. 24, 25. O wretched man that I am, &c.

Say not, Alas! I am too weak, my threshing will be in vain.———No, tho’ you have no more strength for it than a worm for a mountain, it will not be in vain.———God will have these mountains threshed by worms.

But thou wilt say, Alas! I have threshed long without success.———

Answ. Thresh on them by patient enduring till the mountain fall, Heb. vi. 15. After Abraham had, &c. But there is an oath binding betwixt the promise and its accomplishments that it cannot fail, ver. 10. Mind the walls of Jericho.——Have ye not had a partial success sometimes; make use then of the total: so it was with Jesus himself, Heb. ii. 8.—Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

The last mountain to be threshed away is death, and ye shall beat that small too, 1 Cor. x. 54, 55.

After all, it is a mighty wonder to see worm Jacob threshing the mountains; but the threshing worm is shod from heaven, and so fitted to thresh.——Three things this threshing instrument is shod with;——a word of command calling the work.

A plain instance we have in the rationalist of the age, laying the doctrine of a crucified Christ, and substituting in the room thereof, the dry and sapless doctrine of Heathenism, which God will never countenance to renew the hearts or reform the life of any, as being contrary to the appointment of heaven for that purpose. But worm Jacob, influenced by the command of God, exerted by the promise of success, and using the proper means, shall thresh the mountains, and them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. .