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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 It argues such diseased be Who unto years are grown, If such Meat with them don't agree, By which Christ is made known
5 More clearly to the Ear and Eye Than other Doctrines can, And therefore we say presently He's a diseased Man.
5 More clearly to the Ear and Eye Than other Doctrins can, And therefore we say presently He's a diseased Man.
6 Some base disease on him has seized, He's under some decay, His stomach rises at God's Word, And puts it quite away.
6 Some base disease on him has siez'd, He's under some decay, His stomach rises at God's Word, And puts it quite away.
The Second Part. 1 But like as Meat that's strong doth yield The better nourishment, So such who can strong things take in, Are not so impotent, 2 Nor ne'er so weak as others be, But harder work can do, And unto them continually Does sweeter comforts flow. 3 Small things do them not soon offend, But strengthened be to bear Such things that others startle at, And can't abide to hear.