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4 creature man, Micah iv. 13. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion (or breast).——Here lies the mystery, then uniting the two nations of the self-move, and the instruments that the worm shall tread out the mountains as one would do a molehill.———And if ye say, alas! such a treader, what weight has it? I will make (saith the Lord) the feet of the belly of the worm, like a new-shod threshing drag (for them) that shall tread out the highest and rockiest of them all to purpose.

3. The degree and pitch of the worm’s success against those mountains: it shall beat them small till they be like dusts, as the word is used, Deut ix. 1. or like chaff. So that they shall be blown away with wind, and no vestage of them remain.

4. The insurance of this success of the worm, who could insure it but the mighty God? he has done it, JESUS CHRIST JEHOVAH, the most high God, and the worm Jacob’s kinsman Redeemer, hath, by his word of promise, engaged his Almighty power on the side of the worm against the mountains.—Let not the worm fear or doubt the success.—— A worm, seconded by Jesus Christ, will be an over-match for all the mountains and hills setting up their heads from earth to hell.

Here we shall consider,

I. The character of the subject, wherein this mystery of grace is carried on by Jesus.

II. The mystery of grace carried on in them by Jesus.

III. I shall account for this mystery, worm Jacob threshing the mountains of difficulties in his way, and threshing them away quite and clean.

IV. Apply.

First, I shall confider the character of the subject, wherein