God's terrible voice in the city

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, Exod. 19. 16. Heb. 12. 18, 19, 20, 21.

This way of Gods speaking the Children of Israel were not able to bear, therefore they desired that Moses might speak unto them, but that God would not speak unto them thus any more, least they should die, Exod. 20. 19.

At other times God spake with a more still and gentle voice, and in a more mild way, as when he spake to Samuel in the night, he thought at first that it had been the voice of Eli,