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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 A Moth does eat things by degrees, A little now and then; •o gradually thou dost destroy Sometimes vile wicked men.
5 Thou like a Moth, art sometimes, Lord, In Counsels Princes trust, ⟨p. 26⟩Who Plots of Enemies can't see Till out they fiercely burst.
5 Thou like a Moth, art sometimes, Lord, In Councels Princes trust, ⟨p. 26⟩Who Plots of Enemies can't see Till out they fiercely burst.
6 And likewise in Estates of men Thou as a Moth does come, Their hopes are great, and much earn they▪ But bring but little home.