God's terrible voice in the city

These the Apostle calls spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings, Wells without Water, Clouds carried about with a Tempest, Raging waves of the Sea, foaming out their own shame, Wandering stars, unto whom is reserved blackness of darkness for ever. 2 Pet. 2. 13, 17. Jud. 13.

These the Apostle calls spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings, Wells without Water, Clouds carried about with a Tempest, Raging waves of the Sea, foaming out their own shame, Wandring stars, unto whom is reserved blackness of darkness for ever. 2 Pet. 2. 13, 17. Iud. 13.

And yet many of these were hearkened unto, and adhered unto by too many in London, rather than the true Gospel Ministers, commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and ordained according to the Prescription of his Word.

And yet many of these were hearkned unto, and adheared unto by too many in London, rather than the true Gospel Ministers, commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and ordained according to the Prescription of his Word.

Then many Lay-men, some gifted, (who would have given a better account of their gifts at the ⟨p. 95⟩great day had they kept their station) and some without gifts, but with a great measure of ignorance and confidence, did step up sometimes into Pulpits, often took upon them to preach in private, invading the office, and intruding into the work of Christs Ambassadors, which he hath appointed a peculiar office for, and which he hath set a hedge about more than any other office we read of in Scripture; but they ventured to break over the hedge, I am confident to the affronting and displeasing of the great King, whose representatives in the world his Ambassadors are; and not only silly women were led captive by the deceivers which crept in when so many took liberty to preach, but also men who professed themselves to be wise, and to have attained to a degree of light above the vulgar; yet forsaking the Ministry and Ordinances of Jesus Christ, appointed to continue unto the end of the world, for the instructing, perfecting, and establishment of Saints in knowledge and faith, they became fools and children, tossed to and fro with every mind of doctrine, by the slight of them which led them aside.