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mountainous way in the experience of all that travel it: They will never want mountains in the way, till they come to the hill of God.
Secondly, They must not go about the mountains in their way, shifting the difficulties which God calls them to; but they must make their way over them, threshing them down, Micah iv. 13. "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thine horn iron, and thy brow brass: And thou shalt beat in pieces many people." If they offer to go about one mountain, they will be sure to meet with a higher one in their about-gate. Peter tried it, in denying his Master, and found it so; having to encounter another, as high above the former, as the anger of God is above that of the creature, and which was like to crush him, Matth. xxvi, 75. He went out and wept bitterly.
Thirdly, Therefore, worm Jacob falls a-threshing the mountains, combating the difficulties the Lord lays in his way. He puts on a brow for a bargain, and resolutely bestirs his weak hands, and goes threshing forwards, maugers all oppositions, Gen. xxxii. 6. Matth. xi. 22. For there is a spirit in worm Jacob more daring and venturous than ever was in any unbelieving hero, a spirit for the threshing of mountains, while they did but scatter mole-hills, Num. xiv. 24. Pro. xvi. 32.
Fourthly, They continue the combating of difficulties resolutely and patiently.—
