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The banqueting-house, or, A feast of fat things a divine poem, opening many sacred…The banquetting-house, or, A feast of fat things a divine poem, opening many sacred…
The banqueting-house, or, A feast of fat things a divine poem, opening many sacred Scripture mysteries ... / written by Benjamin Keach, author of War with the Devil.The banquetting-house, or, A feast of fat things a divine poem, opening many sacred Scripture mysteries ... / written by Benjamin Keach, author of War with the Devil.
London: printed by J.A. for H. Barnard, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 Depart from Earth, and go to Heaven, From Saints that dwell below, To them to whom blessed Crowns are given, Who do no sorrow know.
2 Depart from Earth, and go to Heav'n, From Saints that dwell below, To them to whom bless'd Crowns are given, Who do no sorrow know.
3 Depart from Sin and Suffering, To go to lasting bliss; ⟨p. 304⟩From being Poor, to be a King! What change is there like this?
4 But yet thou must wait till the time That God prefixed hath; And then thou shalt depart in peace, And have the end of Faith.
5 O happy Man, thou art the Lord's, Let death come when it will: And he thy precious Soul at last Will with his glory fill.