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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.
2 Where God most gracious doth appear, And does pour forth his Grace; The lines are fallen unto us In a most pleasant place.
3 ''We might have been dark Pagans all, ''Or veiled like each Jew, ''Or cheated with an Alcoran ''Amongst the Turkish crew.
4 Dumb Pictures might we all adored, Like Papists in Devotion; And with Rome's Errors so been stored, To drink her deadly Potion.
4 Dumb Pictures might we all ador'd, Like Papists in Devotion; And with Rome's Errours so been stor'd, To drink her deadly Potion.
5 We might have lived in shades of night, And ne'er have known good days, But thou hast sent us Gospel Light To thine eternal praise.
5 We might have liv'd in shades of night, And ne're have known good days, But thou hast sent us Gospel Light To thine eternal praise.