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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.
4 But are our Souls restored indeed, And raised to life again? And from eternal death so freed, Shall never feel that pain?
4 But are our Souls restor'd indeed, And rais'd to life again? And from eternal death so freed, Shall never feel that pain?
5 And shall also preserved be Unto eternal bliss; Well may such sing continually, What comfort, Lord, like this!
6 What ground of joy and gladness's here? We'll raise thy praise therefore; For all restored Souls shall sing To thee for evermore.
The Second Part. The Sinner's misery, and the Saints glory. 1 Sad was the Loss Man did sustain By his most dismal Fall; God's Image marred, his Soul depraved, And brought into great thrall; 2 Defiled, wounded, and naked made, And dead in sin did lie; Thus did his glory at once fade Through his iniquity. 3 Bound in strong Bonds in Satan's Chains His Eyes put out also; He wickedly his God disdains, To him a cursed Foe. 4 For in the mind such enmity Is there in each vile one, That they resist thee day and night, And bid thee to be gone. 5 But yet such Grace didst thou extend To such a filthy Foe, As to send Christ, thy only Son, The Devil to o'erthrow,