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Use 1. Here is a touchstone for the trial of true Christians and worthy communicants, worm Jacob threshing the mountains.
First, They have a heart and spirit for threshing of mountains, in their way to heaven. 'They are peremptory and resolute to break through them without exception, as men that must be in: these shall not perish. Matth. xi. 12.—The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence; And the voilent take it by force. Though they have long threshen in vain, to their own sense, yet they are resolved to hold on (because they see him who is invisible) and, like Paul, Press forward, toward this mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ, Phil. iv. 15. The fearful and unbelieving, they are so delicate and faint-hearted in this case, that they are not for threshing the mountains, they are for the easier talk, but have no heart or hand for that work. These, I am sure, are the fearful, Rev. xxi. 8. They are like the unbelieving spies and people of the wilderness. Take heed here how ye stand.
(1.) To a vain world: Whether there is in you a heart to row against the stream or no, Rom. xii. 2. "Be ye not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds, &c." If ye have no heart for it, but must go along with it, be ye young or old, ye are no good Christians, Gal. vi. 14.—The world is crucified
