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never value him for his grace; that leaves him still as a worm in their sight; what of religion lies beyond the reach of the nature of man. They despise the Christian entertainment on words and promises: They despise us as we do the dust; as we do the crawling of the worm, like Sanballet, when he mocked the Jews, saying, "What do these Jews? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish which are burnt?" But notwithstanding of all that, the worms lick up the Christian way of doing by faith.
4. Yet united to Christ, though a worm, worm Jacob. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself is of the worm family, Psal. xxii. 6 "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob." Compare Isa. xlix. 3. "Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified." This intimates an union between him and them, as his worm brethren, Heb. ii. II. Being lowered and humbled to the condition of the worm, they are knit to and built on him by faith, Luke vi. 48.
5. Lastly, Daring adventurers, daring wrestlers. Worm Jacob ventured on him that formed the mountains, and wrestled with him, and prevailed too, Gen. xxxii.28. Hos. xii. 4. What wonder to find him then
