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And as to the present state of the church, learn,
First, It is not at all strange, nor will it make the case of this church hopeless, that prodigiously high mountains, higher than our fathers saw, are raised up against her, over-topping worm Jacob, and threatening to crush him: Mountains of national guilt, of forty years gathering, laid upon the top of mountains of guilt raised by our fathers; profanity overflowing, and becoming fashionable; a conspiracy carried on in the house of her friends against the grace of Christ and serious godliness, to palm upon us refined Heathenism for Christianity! The foundation struck at. Mountains of damnable heresies, and blasphemies against the person of Christ, and divine authority of the Scriptures; and the advanced learning of the age improved to these monstrous ends! But thresh on these mountains of opposition that stand in your way from earth or hell; thou shalt get thro' them all at length, and thou shalt stand on the sea of glass, Rev. xv. 2.
2. Thresh on the mountains of troubles, trials, and afflictions. Let none of them be they never so high and formidable, prevail to separate betwixt God and you; they will be bent at last, and blown away from before you, Rev. vii. 9,10. 14, &c.
3. Thresh on the mountains of corruption and indwelling sin. Thresh on every height
