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6 2dly, Actually humbled in respect of their frame as the worm still retains its creeping way on the mountain as in the valley, so God’s people do difficulties to be happily surmounted, still keep up the sense of their own utter emptiness and weakness for them. 2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.——If the worm Jacob being so well again, he will be so unweildy, that he will thresh no mountains till he shall anew, 2 Cor xiii. 11.

3. Despising creatures, as the lofty mountains cover the crawling worms: so doth the carnal world contemn worm Jacob, Psal. xxx. 6. But I am a worm and no man: a reproach of men, and despised of the people. And Psal. xxxxii. 4. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.——Though they may value worm Jacob for his gifts, which he has in common with themselves, they will never value him for his grace, that leaves him still as a worm in their fight!—what of religion lies beyond the reach of the nature of man!—they despised the Christian entertainment on words and promises:—they despise us as we do the dust; the worms lick up the Christian way of doing in faith; they despise us as we do the crawling of the worm: like Sanbailat when he mocked the Jews saying, ''What do these Jews? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of heaps of rubbish which are burnt?''

4. Yet united to Christ through a worm worm Jacob——Our Lord Jesus Christ himself is of the worm family, Psal. xx 6 worm Jacob. Psal xxvii. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face O Jacob—Compare Isa. xiix 3. Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.—This intimates an union between him and them as his worm-brethren Heb ii. 11. Being lowered and humbled to the condition of the worm, they are knit to and built on by faith, Luke vi. 48. 5 Last