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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 What can the Hammer do, O Lord, Thou the great Agent art; The Instrument, that is thy Word, O smite upon the heart,
5 And make it yield! and square it then For thy own b••ss•d design; Thy Image on it, Lord, cut out Most holy and divine;
6 And fit it for thy building too, O set it in its place, And life infuse into it so That it may shine with Grace.
The Second Part. 1 O let it be well polished, And it also unite Unto thy building, there to be A Jasper-stone most bright, ⟨p. 223⟩2 That it may suit and well agree With the Foundation-stone, Which is of Gold, no Diamond More glorious ever shone; 4 And then shall we, when thus we be Into thy Building laid, Have cause to sing unto our King By thy eternal aid. 4 This Hammer of thy blessed Word Must drive the Nail quite home, Or else Convictions will not stick Whenever they do come: 5 The Precept, Lord, will not abide, Nor Promise fastened be; Nor no Conviction last in us, Until drove home by thee: 6 But since we find they fastened are, Let us sing forth thy Praise; And since thy Word so precious is, Let us its Glory raise.