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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47401	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.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1692 (1692)	Wing K49; ESTC R18938	119,180	423

declare Is good against the stings Of Serpents and does Worms destroy Which from Corruption springs 2 Grace is a sovereign remedy Against the sting within And kills the Worm of Conscience too The product 't is of sin 3 Sin is a thing most venomous A sting it is likewise Of the old Serpent and 't is worse Than what in Poyson lyes 4 This kills the Soul and Body too And poysons ev'ry part And doth corrupt each faculty Of ev'ry Sinners heart 5 Salt was of use under the Law For ev'ry Sacrifice Must salted be and so must we Before All-seeing Eyes 6 Yea ev'ry Prayer and Offering That 's offered up on high Your Duties all must season'd be With Grace continually 7 But other Salt if Meat do stink It can't it sav'ry make But Grace will such recover who Most filthy ways do take 8 And in God's Nostrils loathsom are Yet Grace will sweeten them Nay they will such a savour bear He 'll highly such esteem The Fifth Part. 1 But we alas do often see Salt lose its savour may Or things may over-salted be If too much on they lay 2 But Grace in both these things excells Its savour cannot lose Nor can we have of it too much Most savoury are all those 3 Who most are salted with this Salt O therefore loudly cry For Grace good store and do not fear God will your wants supply 4 Then sing forth Praises to the Lord With Grace in all your hearts And see that you well-season'd are In all your inward parts HYMN 99. Eph. 6. 14. And having your Loyns girt about with Truth c. 1 TRue Grace and true Sincerity Is like a Girdle rare Which some about their Loins do love Continually to wear 2 Like as a Girdle cleaves to Men And doth them compass in So Grace should cleave unto our Souls To keep us from all sin 3 We in the bonds of Truth and Grace Should evermore abide And never from God's Grace and Truth Go back nor turn aside 4 And as a Girdle strengthneth The Loyns of ev'ry one So will this Girdle of Truth also All such who have it on 5 If you in the true Doctrine are And in sincerity Do firmly stand in every Truth Small weakness you 'll espy 6 To be in you for strength you 'll have If that your hearts be ●ound And every Gospel blessed Truth Be evermore your bound The Second Part. 1 The Souldier in the days of old His Armour did gird on And then compleatly harnessed Was he to look upon 2 So must the Christians Armour be Girt with sincerity What will Mens Faith or Righteousness Or Hope else signifie 3 If they are not upright in heart And Truth is not their bound They Hypocrites be sure will then If so at last be found 4 To have the Loyns well girt denotes That Preparation we Unto the Battel ought to make So ready must we be 5 For to encounter or engage With all our cruel Foes To have our Armour girt with Truth And then need fear no blows The Third Part. 1 Girdling also service denotes Let Loyns be girt about And let your Lights be shining too And let them not go out 2 That ye may on your Master wait Whose coming doth draw near Be ready therefore every Saint O now your selves prepare 3 Let ev'ry thing in truth be done And Grace the Girdle be And then with joy shall ev'ry one Their blessed Master see 4 A Girdle is an Ornament It fastens all together And covers Joynts the Armour hath That Men cannot tell whether 5 'T is all one piece or 't is in parts It doth them so unite Thus doth Uprightness us adorn That in Jehovah's sight 6 There seems no flaw nor no defects Uprightness covers all God doth that Soul who is sincere A perfect Christian call The Fourth Part. 1 Come art thou low of mean descent And of ignoble birth Grace covers this deformity Its glory so shines forth 2 Or art thou lame or outwardly May blemishes be seen Yet Grace doth cover this defect Thy Beauty 's great within 3 Or art thou poor and so art brought Unto contempt and scorn Sincerity doth make thee rich Nay more to be high born 4 May be thy parts and gifts are small And hence Men thee dispise Sincerity hides this in all In this thy Glory lyes 5 For Grace excells the greatest Gifts Gifts may to Man commend But Grace commends thee now to God And so 't will in the end The Fifth Part. 1 Soul hast thou worse defects than these Infirmities within Sincerity doth God so please It covers all thy sin 2 He it esteems so as if thou Hadst never broke his Law And through Christ's Righteousness he doth In thee behold no flaw 3 O get this Girdle on ye Saints It glitters more than Gold It never can besides be lost And doth its Beauty hold 4 As fresh as 't was when first put on O bless'd Sincerity How glorious art thou how dost thou Shine in Jehovah's Eye 5 See then that ye the Truth hold fast And with it girted be Then no delusion needst thou fear Nor cursed Heresie 6 But the right Girdle take be sure And not the counterfeit The true by this you may descry Christ's Truth is stampt on it 7 It with the written Word agrees Exact in ev'ry thing If all Christ's Precepts you don't own Contempt on you 't will bring 8 That Girdle will not hold but break Though you may seem sincere So far as you cleave unto Truth Yet will at last appear 9 A false Professor 'cause you have Some blessed Truth withstood Into which you did Light receive But not obey it wou'd The Sixth Part with Psal. 117. 1 Each Truth of God O it is pure God's Truth doth make us clean It frees our Souls also for ever Such glory in it 's seen 2 Strong is the Truth you all will say This Girdle then is strong O buy it Souls whilst 't is to day 'T will fit both old and young 3 God's Saints did suffer grievous pain Great tortures did endure Before they would part with the Truth Such peace it did procure 4 Unto their Souls who faithful were Unto the Truth alway O it will make you holy bold In the great Judgment-day 5 Now let all Nations of the Earth Their great Creator praise Nay let the people all sing forth His mighty Name to raise 6 Whose Kindness's great unto his Saints His Mercies ever sure O praise ye him for his bless'd Truth Which doth abide for ever HYMN 100. Eph. 6. 14. And having on the Breast-plate of Righteousness c. 1 O Lord we Souldiers are and we Must fight or else be slain O let us all well armed be For Foes come on amain 2 And since our Enemies do aim To hit us on the Breast Thy blessed Breast-plate let 's have on For that will hold the rest 3 'T is righteousness that will secure Our Souls from ev'ry wrong And 't