God's terrible voice in the city

God speaketh by his Ministers, who are his Watchmen, in his Name to warn the people of his Judgements temporal and eternal, which in the Scriptures he hath threatened, Ezek. 3, 17 18, &c. Isa. 63. 6. who are the Lords Ambassadors, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 6⟩5. 20. from whom they have a Commission to preach the Gospel, and declare the glad tidings of Salvation unto all such as repent, and believe, and yield up themselves unto the obedience of the Word.

God speaketh by his Ministers, who are his Watchmen, in his Name to warn the people of his Judgements temporal and eternal, which in the Scriptures he hath threatned, Ezek. 3, 17 18, &c. Isa. 63. 6. who are the Lords Embassadors, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 6⟩5. 20. from whom they have a Commission to preach the Gospel, and declare the glad tidings of Salvation unto all such as repent, and believe, and yield up themselves unto the obedience of the Word.

Ministers stand in the room of Christ; and it is well for us that God speaks unto us by Ministers, because we should not be able to endure, should he speak unto us immediately by himself; should he speak unto us with an audible voice, as he did to the Children of Israel on Mount Sinai, when he gave the Law, this would be so terrible, that with them we should desire to heat Moses, and choose Ministers rather to speak unto us; yea, if Christ Jesus himself should come down from heaven, however he might have been heard in his state of Humiliation, when his Deity was so much veiled; yet if he should now appear in the glory he hath with the Father; or as he appeared unto John his Beloved Disciple, when his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his countenance like the Sun when it shineth in its full strength, and his voice like the sound of many waters: I say, if Christ should thus appear and preach unto us, such a dread and amazement would fall upon us, that we should fall down dead at his feet, as his Disciple John did,