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thereof, particularly the top of it, that is, the sin that easily besets you, and infallibly you will get it down at length. Paul says this, while he was threshing it, "O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, thro' Jesus Christ our Lord," &c. Rom. vii. 24.
Say not, Alas! I am too weak, my threshing will be in vain. No, tho' you have no more strength for it than a worm for a mountain, it will not be in vain. God will have these mountains threshed by worm.
But thou wilt say, Alas! I have threshed long without success. Ans. Thresh on them by patient enduring, till the mountain fall. Heb. vi. 15. After Abrham had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. There is an oath binding betwixt the promise and its accomplishment, that it cannot fail, ver. 19; Mind the walls of Jericho. Have ye not had a partial success sometimes? Make progress then, until you obtain a total. So it was with Christ himself, Heb. ii. 8. "Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small; and shall make the hills as chaff."
The last mountain to be threshed away is death; and ye shall beat that small too, Death is swallowed up in victory, I Cor. xv. 54. "O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?" Ver. 55.
