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Use 2. Here is likewise a ground of comfort to such. Let not the high rockiness, or bulk of the mountains discourage thee, nor yet the felt unsuccessfulness of thy attempts hitherto. God hath said, Worm Jacob shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small. Be not afraid, only believe.
Use 3. Lastly, Here is, moreover, a strong inducement to all to come to Christ. He will make you thresh the mountains, and beat them small. Come, ye that are wandering on the mountains of vanity, and like to be worried on the mountains of prey, who are wrestling in the mountains of difficulty, before you come to Christ, and ye shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small; and shall make the hills as chaff.
Thirdly, I shall account for this mystery, Worm Jacob threshing the mountains of difficulties in his way, and threshing them away quite and clean. How can this be?
1. GOD hath said it, and therefore it cannot fail: "Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small; and shalt make the hills as chaff." Compare with Numb. xxiii. 19. "GOD is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" He spake things into being, and they must start out of the womb of nothing, or not being, at his word, which
