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and worm Jacob has a kind of divine omnipotence, Ver. 7, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Philip, iv. 13. I can do all things thro' Christ, who strengtheneth me. And it is fixed so, that their threshing is Christ’s threshing, Col. i. 24. And ye may 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 mountains that stand before worm Jacob, are burnt mountains; so they are far easier to thresh, one would think. The mountain of the Babylonish monarchy, that stood before the worm Jacob, and barred his way seventy years; at length God set a fire in the bowels of it, and made it a burnt mountain; and then bade worm Jacob thresh, and then it flies away with the wind, Jer. ii. 25. "Behold! I am again thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, who destroyeth all the earth! And I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain." By the death and resurrection of Christ, all the mountains that stand between worm Jacob and heaven are burnt mountains. Christ has gone thro' the bowels of them with his fire, undone their consistance, and burnt these rocks to
