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lime; they are nothing now but the shape of mountains, with a thin scorched surface: they will give way at the threshing of worm Jacob, like the apples of Sodom, which, being touched, go to dust between one's fingers. Micah ii. 13. "The Breaker is gone up before them: they have broken up, and have passed thro' the gate, and are gone out by it, and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them. Nahum ii. 12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater." Compare Isa. xxvi. 19. "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out her dead. Hosea xiii. 12. I will ransom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death. O death! I will be thy plague: O grave! I will be thy definition: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes."
1. The struggle of the church with all her adversaries will have a surprising and comfortable issue at length. For as weak as she is, and as strong and numerous as they are, she will infallibly have success; surprising success against them, attending the encounter with them, Mic. iv. II, &c.
