God's terrible voice in the city

1. How God may be said to speak.

God being a Spirit, hath no Mouth nor Tongue properly as men have, who have bodies, and therefore his way of speaking is not like ours (though sometimes he hath created a Voice in as articulate sound as if it had proceeded from the mouth of man to declare his will) but there are several ways in which God hath spoken and doth speak unto the Children of men, by which he doth as really and effectually make known his mind, as if he spake with mans voice.

God being a Spirit, hath no Mouth nor Tongue properly as men have, who have bodies, and therefore his way of speaking is not like ours (though sometimes he hath created a Voice in as articulate sound as if it had proceeded from the mouth of man to declare his will) but there are several wayes in which God hath spoken and doth speak unto the Children of men, by which he doth as really and effectually make known his mind, as if he spake with mans voice.

1. God hath spoken formerly unto men immediately, in extraordinary ways, and that sometimes more terribly; as when he gave the Law upon Mount Sinai, when the Mount burned with fire, and there was blackness, and darkness, and tempest, thunderings and lightnings, and the sound of the Trumpet exceeding loud, and the voice of words so exceeding terrible, that it made the whole Camp to tremble; and Moses himself said, I exceedingly fear and quake, Exod. 19. 16. Heb. 12. 18, 19, 20, 21.

1. God hath spoken formerly unto men immediately, in extraordinary wayes, and that sometimes more terribly; as when he gave the Law upon Mount Sinai, when the Mount burned with fire, and there was blackness, and darkness, and tempest, thundrings and lightnings, and the sound of the Trumpet exceeding loud, and the voice of words so exceeding terrible, that it made the whole Camp to tremble; and Moses himself said, I exceedingly fear and quake,