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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 Nothing with it can once compare, O do but taste and try; For none but such can ever tell What good in it doth lye.
4 If you to Honey add such things Which very bitter are, The bitterness it doth take off, Nay sweet it doth appear
5 Unto the taste; so if you do With great afflictions meet, If God a Promise gives to you, The trial will be sweet.
5 Unto the taste; so if you do With great afflictons meet, If God a Promise gives to you, The tryal will be sweet.
6 But though Honey so sweet is found, Yet some do it not love; So none do find God's Word most sweet, But those born from above.