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…

6 Servants are of inferior rank, Thou didst thy self deny, And didst not reputation seek, 'Twas great humility

6 Servants are of inferiour rank, Thou didst thy self deny, And didst not reputation seek, 'Twas great humility

Which thou was pleased then to show; Thy Fathers honour sought, And unto him great honour too Thou by thy work hast brought.

VVhich thou was pleased then to show; Thy Fathers honour sought, And unto him great honour too Thou by thy work hast brought.

The second Part. 1 'Twas not to do thy will alone, But his who did thee send; In every thing, O holy One, Thou diddest condescend: 2 Thou hast to wages a just right, As other Servants have; Hence crowned art with glory bright, And more than that dost crave, 3 The souls of all thine own Elect Thy wages are also; ⟨p. 60⟩With grace they must be all bedecked, And crowned they shall be too. 4 The Heathen's thine Inheritance, Possession thou must have Of all the Earth, in God's good time The same thou shalt receive. 5 Because thou didst thy soul pour forth, God to thee will divide A portion with th' Kings o'th' Earth, To bring down all their pride. 6 They at thy feet their Crowns shall-lay, And to thee bend their knees; The Sceptre thou alone shalt sway, And chop down all high Trees. 7 And though a Servant, yet a Son, And faithful was and true; And nothing thou hast left undone, Which to thee he did show. 8 But all things plainly didst declare, Even all thy Father's will, Which in thy word's left very clear, That we it might fulfil.