world, combat the learning of the schools, and the force of them who had the power of the sword. The apostle unriddles this mystery; 2 Cor. 4:7, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” While he makes a worm thrash the mountains, to beat them small, the greater is the glory of the mighty hand that does it with such a flail; Isa. 41:14, 15. When Peter was a young man, able to bear hardships, he was at ease; but when old and less