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many mountains ſtand before the lite Worm, but where will that conformity ti 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 Worn Jacob is as inſignicant for threſhing mountains as any Worm that crawl on the earth. Job xv. 5 Without me ye can do nothing. Fix that, and worm Jacob has a kind of deſired (illegible text) Verſ. 7 If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you, ye ſhall aſk what ye will and it ſhall be done unto you Phil iv 13. I can do all things through Chriſt which ſtrengthedeth me. And it is fixed to their threſhing is Chriſt's threſhing. Col i 24 And ye a well allow Chriſt threſhing away mountains with a little finger of his body. If with the finger of God he caſt out devils, with the leaſt of his fingers he may caſt down mountains.

5 Laſtly All the mountain that ſtand before worm Jacob are burnt mountains ſo they are far eaſier to threſh one would think. The mountain of the Babyloniſh Monarch, that ſtood before the Worm Jacob and barred his way ſev nty years: at length (illegible text)od ſet fire in the bowels of it, and makes it a burnt mountain; and then bids Worm Jacob threſh and it (illegible text) away with the wind. Jer ii 24 - Behold I am againſt thee, O deſtroying mountain ſaith the Lord, which deſtroyeth all the earth and I will ſtreatch ont mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the (illegible text)ks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. By (illegible text) Death and Reſurection of Chriſt, all the mountains that ſtand between Worm Jacob and heaven are burnt mountains. Chriſt has, gone through the bowels of them with his fire, undone their conſiſtance, burnt (illegible text) rocks to Lime: they are nothing now but the (illegible text)e of mountains with a thin ſcorched ſurface; (illegible text) will give way at the threſhing of Worm Jacob, (illegible text) the Apples of Sodom, being touched go to duſt between ones fingers. Micah ii. 13. The breaker is