Thomas Boston

“ There is a law work followed with gospel grace wrought on them issuing in a thorough humiliation, breaking down their natural self conceit, tumbling down their towering imaginations about themselves, which they had in their state of blindness, bringing them in their own eyes the consistance of mountains to that of Worms and convincing them they are, have, and can do nothing. ”

“ For there is a spirit in Worm Jacob more daring and venturous than ever was in any unbelieving hero, a spirit for threshing of mountains while they did but scatter Mole-hills. Numb xiv, 24. Prov xvi, 32.
Fourth. They continue the combating of difficulties resolutely and patiently. Threshing is a continued action, consisting of repeating strokes: it takes some time to thresh a sheath, how much more to thresh a mountain. It is the ruin of many that they are not able to endure. ”

“ Some mountain God's people are kept threshing at all their days, especially the mountain of coruption, and they never fall quite down till dead. But as a pledge for the time to come. God makes now and then some mountains to fall down before the Worm Jacob, wherewith he is surprised and transported with wonder how it came to pas . ”

“ What of religion lies beyond the reach of the nature of man, they despise the Christian entertainment on words and promises, they despise as we do, the dust the Worms lick up the Christian way of doing in faith, they despise as we do the crawling of the Worm Like Sanballat, when he mocked the Jews saying 'What do these Jews? ”

“ Actually humbled in respect of their frame as the Worm still retains its creeping way on the mountain as in the valley so God's people do, difficulties to be happy surmounted, still keep up the sense of their own utter emptiness and we knots for them. 2 Cor. i 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God. In the Worm Jacob being so well again he will be so unwieldy that he will thresh no mountains till he fall a new. ”

“ See a cluster of them 2 Cor vi. 11. 'As unknown, and yet well known: as dying, and, behold, we live: as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. ”

“ The Lord lays in his people's way mountains of difficulties quite above their strength, difficulties when they look to as a Worm to a mountain before it. 2. Cor I, 8 For we would not, Brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in sia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life. ”

“ However firm the way to hell be, the way to heaven will be a mountainous way in the experience of all that travel it: They will never want mountains in the way till they come to the hill of God.
Secondly: They must not go about the mountains in their ways, threshing the difficulties which God calls them to ”

“ The degree and pitch of the Worm's success against those mountains: It shall beat them small till they be like dust, as the word is used, Dut ix, 21, or like Chaff. So that they shall be blown away with Wind, and no vestage of them remain.
(4.) The insurance of this success of the Worm. who could insure it but the mighty God? he has done it, Jesus Christ Jehovah the most high God, and the Worm Jacob's kinsman Redeemer, hath by his word of promise engaged his Almighty power on the side of the Worm against the mountains. ”

“ A conspiracy carried on in the house of her friends, against the grace of Christ and serious Godliness to p lm upon us returned Heathen is um for Christianity, the foundation broke at: mountains of damnable heresies and blasphemies, against the person of Christ and divine authority of the scriptures; and the advanced learned of the (illegible text) e improved to these monstrous ends. But, threshing the mountains of opposition that stand in your way from earth to hell, thou shalt get through them all at length, and thou shalt stand on the sea of glass, Rev. ”

“ The breaker is come up before them, they are broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it, and then king shall passbefore them, and the Lord on the head of them. Natum, iii. 12. ll thy strong holes shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs; if they be shaken they shall fall into the mouth o the carer.'Compair Isa xxvi 19 'They dead man shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise: Awake and sing ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is a the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ”

“ If a stroke or two would do the business, they would bring their matters to a good account but they have no heart to be threshers. 'But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing, James. ”