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 fourth Part. 1 Now when a thing does doubtful lye, And Men cannot agree; When what one says, others deny, We presently should flee 2 To thee the true and faithful One; If to that very thing No witness thou hast plainly born, Away we must it fling. 3 Art thou the only Witness, Lord, To every Truth divine, And not one word for such a thing Out of that mouth of thine? 4 And yet can that a truth be thought, They other Witness bring; They call for Moses, he is brought To witness to this thing. 5 And thus they, Lord, do thee degrade, Or do invaluate The Highest Witness e'er was heard, Or Matters did relate. 6 Moses was not for evermore Within the House to be; ⟨p. 114⟩He spoke on Earth, but thou from Heaven▪ No Law-giver but thee, 7 Lord, can we own, since all power is To thee alone given; And all thy Laws they are firm as The Ordinance of Heaven.

The fourth Part. 1 Now when a thing does doubtful lye, And Men cannot agree; VVhen what one says, others deny, VVe presently should flee 2 To thee the true and faithful One; If to that very thing No witness thou hast plainly born, Away we must it fling. 3 Art thou the only VVitness, Lord, To ev'ry Truth divine, And not one word for such a thing Out of that mouth of thine? 4 And yet can that a truth be thought, They other VVitness bring; They call for Moses, he is brought To witness to this thing. 5 And thus they, Lord, do thee degrade, Or do invaluate The Highest VVitness e're was heard, Or Matters did relate. 6 Moses was not for evermore VVithin the House to be; ⟨p. 114⟩He spoke on Earth, but thou from Heaven▪ No Law-giver but thee, 7 Lord, can we own, since all power is To thee alone given; And all thy Laws they are firm as The Ordinance of Heaven.

The Fifth Part. 1 No Tabernacle here's for him, Appears to every one Whose eyes are open, if they look They'll find that he is gone: 2 None, none but Jesus does remain, What can there be more clear? God calls to us too out of Heaven, Him only now to hear. 3 Besides, if Moses should come in, Their Cause he'd give away; He never gave that Law to them Who live i'th' Gospel day: 4 'Twas given unto Israel When they in Horeb were; Not to their Fathers, but to them, Doth eminent appear;