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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.
3 All secrets of State is with thee, Thou knowest thy Father's Will, And agitates all things below With strange and wondrous skill.
3 All secrets of State is with thee, Thou know'st thy Father's Will, And agitates all things below With strange and wondrous skill.
4 'Tis thou must counsel give to us, Thy counsel it is good, ⟨p. 122⟩But woe be unto all those souls Thy counsels have withstood.
5 O then for counsel, Lord, let's come To thee continually, And to thy praise sing all our days Until we come to die.
The Second Part. 1 A matter, Lord, of sharp contest Betwixt two Parties were, And God hath thee alone invest To make the matter clear. 2 Man stands charged by the great God, As worthy is to die For Treason, which notorious is Against his Majesty: 3 But there's a Friend from Heaven come Who in our stead does say, That he will bear the Sinners doom, And all his debts defray. 4 Now will it stand in sacred Laws, 'Tis thou our Counsel art, Can Justice find, Lord, any flaws? Thy judgment now impart: 5 Will it hold good i'th' Court above, That guilty Sinners may This way be freed? Can this remove And take their guilt away?