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and the great Worm Jacob, the little one kinsman Redeemer, Rom. viii. 9. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren." Now, the great Worm, the man Christ, a worm, and no man, (Psal. xxii. 6.) has encountered mountains, and threshed them away. Where are the four monarchies, the most towering mountains that ever set up their heads on earth? The chief Worm Jacob has threshed them away with the wind, Dan. ii. 35. The mountains stood before him, thro' the world, with all the fastness that human learning and the power of the sword could give; but, by his few fishermen he threshed them away, and the prophecy is fulfilled, Psalm lxxii. 16. "There shall be a handful of corn in the earth, on the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth." Now many mountains stand before the little worm, but where will that conformity to heaven's beloved pattern be, if they also do not thresh them away?
4. The little worm Jacob is in reality but a member of the great One, Jesus Christ. Take away that, and worm Jacob is as insignificant for threshing of mountains as any worm that crawls on the earth, John xv. 5. Without me, ye can do nothing. Fix that,
