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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 '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? ⟨p. 123⟩6 Can God be just, and yet forgive? O bring thy sense now in! Can we acquittance, Lord, receive, And pardoned be of sin 7 By righteousness another wrought, And death which he did die? Can guilty Man from guilt be freed? Can that him justify? 8 To end this Cause thou didst come here, The Matter's left to thee; And thou dost say the Sinner's clear This way, and so shall be.
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?