grace, if it shall miscarry in its attempts, the glory of grace is sunk, as the precious loading with the ship cast away.—Wherefore, that his grace may be glorified, if it be in a worm threshing mountains, those mountains must needs be threshed away by that worm, though that sacred fire be but like a spark in the midst of the sea of corruption, it must not only be preserved in, but dry up that sea quite and clean.
3. By an unalterable decree, there must be a conformity betwixt the little worm and the great worm Jacob, the little one’s 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. xx. 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 to chaff, which is away with the wind, Dan. ii. 35.—The mountains stood before him thro’ the world, with all the fastness of human learning, and the power of the sword could give; but, by his few fishermen he threshed them away, and the prophecy is fulfilled, Psal. lxxii. 12. 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 insufficient for threshing of mountains as any worm that crawls on the earth. John xv. 5—Without me ye can do nothing.—Fix that, and worm Jacob has a kind of desired omnipotence.—Ver. 7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye
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