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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.
How shall we take up our abode In him whom we should love? •ow shall we find the way to God, And come to him above?
4 The way was barred up by our sin, Another's opened; Thou art the way, by thee must we For evermore be led.
4 The way was barr'd up by our sin, Another's opened; Thou art the way, by thee must we For evermore be led.
5 By thy sweet Life, and by thy Death, And by thy Doctrine too, Thou art the way, none else on earth Is there for us to go.
The Second Part. 1 There is no way to God most high, But only Lord by thee; No other Name whereby we saved, O Lord, can ever be. 2 As thou the Mediator art, And didst atone for sin; And thy own merits dost impart, The way in thee is seen. 3 As thou a Priest for us didst die, A King o'er us to reign; And as a Prophet us to teach, We see the way most plain. 4 The way of pardon and of peace, And to be justified; The way to union with our God, It is by thee who died. 5 If we would have eternal life, Thou art the way thereto; 'Tis not by our own righteousness, Though some that way do go. 6 No 'tis by thee, by thee alone, Thou art the way, O Lord;