Jacob shall thresh the mountains and beat them small;—be not afraid,—only believe.
Use 3. Lastly, Here is, moreover, a strong inducement to all to come to Christ.———He will make you thresh the mountains, and beat them small.———Come, ye that are wandering in the mountains of vanity, and like to be worried on the mountains of prey, who are wrestling in the mountains of difficulty before you come to Christ, and, ye shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.
Thirdly. I shall account for this mystery worm Jacob threshing the mountains of difficulties in his way, and threshing them away quite and clean: how can this be?
1. GOD hath said, and therefore it cannot fail, Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.—Compare with Numbers xxiii. 19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent.—Hath he said, and shall he not do it?—Or hath be spoken, and shall he not make it good—He spake things into being, and they must start out of the womb of nothing, or not being at his word, which calls them forth, Rom. iv. 17. There is as much strength in Jesus Christ for worm Jacob to thresh and beat away the mountains, as there was for making the world and all the mountains in it,—Psalm xxxiii. 9. He spake, and it was done; and, shall not his word that laid them into being, be as effectual to say them away again.—Thus saith the Lord, it is enough to ensure the accomplishment of the hardest thing prophesied.
2. The glory of his grace, which is the great sign of the whole mystery of godliness, surely requires it——What does he intend by the mystery of Christ, but the glory of his grace, Eph. i. 6 To shew the exceeding ⟨r⟩iches of it, chap. ii. 7. Therefore be has chosen the way ⟨t⟩hat leads straight to the point, Rom. vi. 6. Therefore ⟨it⟩ is of faith that it might be by grace—The worm is ⟨d⟩espicable in itself, but being the subject of glorious
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