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A banquetting-house full of spiritual delights: or, Hymns and spiritual songs on several occasions Century. I. By Elias Keach, minister of the Gospel.
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Keach, Elias.
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A Banquetting-House Full of Spiritual Delights OR Hymns and Spiritual Songs On several Occasions CENTURY I. By Elias Keach Minister of the Gospel EPHES. 5.19 Speaking to your selves in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Singing and making Melody in your Hearts to the Lord. LONDON Printed by Benja Harris for the AUTHOR 1696. THE Epistle Dedicatory To the Sheep and Lambs of Christ Meeting at Curriers-Hall Lonon over whom I am an Vnworthy under Shepherd and to the Subscribers of this small Piece Much Endeared and intirely Beloved IT is necessary I say something upon this occasion tho' not much for a long Epistle will not become this short Tract and Dedications of late Years have been much abused to a vain Flattery tho' of Antient Vse and may be of no small Profit and seeing we find this Custom approv'd by the practice of one of the Pen-men of Holy Writ St. Luke in his Gosepl and the Acts it is less to be disparaged And I am the more encouraged I have three Reasons for the publishing of these Hymns besides your Importunity viz. 1. That by a frequent perusal of them you may be helpt to recover the Fragments of divers Discourses which have slipt your Memory and so be of no small use to you in your retired Meditations on Divine things 2. That you may have such Hymns and Spiritual Songs by you for your publick use in your Families that are most agreeable to your Principles and nearest your Affections containing also variety of Matter 3. For the better and more orderly performance of this part of divine Worship in the publick Assembly for by premeditation you will be capable conjointly to sing with more Judgment and Vnderstanding and make the sweeter Harmony in the Ears of the God of Order I have not used neither do I pretend to Rhetorical Flourishes and Guilded Flights but have accommodated my self to your Temper and Capacity even the meanest and weakest among you and it is observable that the profoundest Prophets accommodated themselves to their Hearers or Readers Capacities as of Fishes to the Egyptians droves of Cattle to the Arabians Trade and Traffick to the Tyrians So our dear Redeemer tells his Fishermen That they shall be Fishers of Men and after he had express'd himself in plain Parables to the People as if the Essential Word had been at a loss for a fit Word familiar plain and low enough for our dull and shallow Apprehensions Whereunto saith he shall we liken the Kingdom of Heaven c. And the Evangelists for their Hearers sakes spake Vulgarly many times Beloved many among us tip their Tongues and store their Heads some for shew and some for delight but Ministers above all men have their Talents in trust that therewith they may save themselves and those that hear them they must condescend to the Capacities of their Hearers and stoop to the Apprehensions of the meanest and become all things to all Men in St. Paul's Sense that they may win some 'T was a saying of a Learned Bishop Lord send me Learning enough that I may Preach plain enough And if I had used a higher Style it may be many of you could not have sung with that Vnderstanding that is required A plain Preacher and Author suits best a plain Hearer and Reader and I design'd these Hymns only for your Vse not for any others either Learned or Vnlearned and if you kindly accept and make use of them I have attain'd my End And as for Carpers and Censurers I value them at the same rate as they do this Piece I thought to have said something to the Argument of Singing but Mr. Richard Allen in his Book lately Published called An Essay to prove singing of PSALMS with conjoined Voices a Christian Duty Hath cleared this blessed Truth so effectually in a few Leaves unto which Book I refer such as want further Satisfaction that I cannot in the least degree pretend to Mend it and therefore shall not touch it being also confin'd to too little room Brethren the things contain'd in this Piece will be far better understood and spoken of in Heaven by the Glorious Noon-day Divinity in which the immeadiately Illuminated Assembly do there Sing Jehovah's Praise than by such a stammering Tongue and scribling Pen as mine which doth but marr them there we shall not only be of one Judgment in this point of Singing but well-skill'd and unanimous in the practice of it Alass I write my Lord's Praises but by Moon-light I cannot Praise him so much as by halves The excelling Glory of Christ dazzles all Apprehensions swallows up all Expressions he 's altogether Love and Lovely What Tongue belonging to a renewed Person can be silent while his Praises are tuning When we have worn our Tongues to the stumps in ascribing Praises to him alass we have done nothing when all is done But to Conclude I hope your Candor will overlook the Faults and Slips either of the Author's Pen or the Printer's Press and my hearty Prayer to Jehovah is that in the main it may tend to the Comfort and Profit of your never-dying Souls that you may be the better fitted and prepared to Sing his Eternal Praise in the Mansions of Glory above in the Company of glorious Angels the Seraphims and Cherubims of God And the God of Peace that brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good Work to do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever Amen I subscribe my self your most Affectionate tho' Unworthy Servant for Christ's sake ELIAS KEACH From my Study in Blew-Anchor-Alley Bunhill-Fields on the 11th of the second Month 1696. THE TABLE OF CONTENTS AN Hymn at the Baptizing-place page 1 A Sacramental Hymn page 3 A Sacramental Hymn page 5 A Sacramental Hymn page 8 Against Slavish Fear page 33 A Sacramental Hymn page 41 A new Heart have all in the Covenant page 47 An Hymn sung at the Funeral Sermon of Mr. Stephen Hall Preach'd on the 16th of Sept. 1694. page 51 An Hymn sung on a Thanksgiving-Day page 53 An Hymn sung at the Baptizing-place page 55 A Sacramental Hymn page 59 An Evening Song page 73 A Hymn for the Baptizing-place page 78 A common Conjunction of the Trinity page 88 A call to Saints page 96 A Sacramental Hymn page 98 All Blessings come through Christ page 106 An accusing Conscience silenced page 110 A Hymn for the Baptizing-place page 119 Christ's coming is near page 50 Christ the Saints Advocate page 61 Christ sends his Spirit to his Saints page 83 Christ the Sent of God page 91 Christ a Believers All in All. page 95 Divine help the cause of Perseverance page 14 Divine Praise belongs to God page 16 Divine Adoration perform'd page 20 Divine Adoration given unto Christ page 82 Faith wrought in the Heart page 97
God's Forbearance and Goodness page 21 Grace enables to walk in God's ways page 22 God softens the hard Heart page 23 God's Patience exercifed page 26 God a good Master page 39 God disapoints his Peoples Enemies page 52 God teacheth humble Souls page 69 God instructs his People page 81 God cures the Stone in the Heart page 84 God's people encouraged page 86 God's promises excellent page 90 God gives a new Heart page 101 God prepares his people for Good page 105 God the only Object of Praise page 107 Good news for great Sinners page 112 Hope the Anchor of the Soul page 13 Helpless sinners invited to Christ page 75 How Saints should be qualified page 87 How the Spirit revives drooping Saints page 93 On pardon of Sin page 25 On Covenant-Relation page 27 On Covenant Love page 28 On God's Attributes laid in Covenant page 29 On the New-Covenant page 30 On Redeeming Love page 31 On the sinfulness of Sin page 32 On depending on divine Strength page 34 On perseverance in Grace page 35 On depending on divine Strength page 36 On forgiveness of Sin page 37 On divine Mercy page 38 On obedience to the divine Law page 44 On the Gospel Message page 45 On walking in God's Statutes page 49 On the divine Spirit 's conduct page 54 On the sad condition of such who are without the divine Spirit page 62 On pardon of Sin page 65 On the folly of Sinners page 72 On Hypocrisie Unbelief c. page 100 On the Love of God page 104 On divine Conduct and Providence page 108 On sinners hard Hearts page 115 Poor sinners invited to Christ page 70 Petitions for Perseverance page 114 Petitions against Backsliding page 116 Reasons why the Spirit is to be prais'd page 109 Saints have no cause of Fear page 11 Saints not to be Dejected page 15 Saints not to be Discourag'd page 17 Saints not to be afraid page 18 Saints in the eternal Love of God page 19 Saints afraid to Sin page 40 Saints avoid Sin page 48 Saints Militant rejoyce c. page 64 Saints long for God's countenance page 67 Sinners invited to Christ page 68 Saints not to be Dejected page 80 Sinners ingratitude page 103 Spiritual blessings require thankfulness page 111 Saints not to be Discourag'd page 118 To spread the Fame of God c. page 12 To observe God's Commandments page 24 The Saints are Christ's by choice page 58 The holy Spirit to be Worshipped page 63 The divine Spirit may not be withdrawn page 74 The Love c. of God in Govenant page 76 The way of God's Precepts pleasant page 85 The danger of trusting a false Faith page 92 The advantages of having God's Spirit page 102 The stone in the Heart cur'd page 113 The happiness of al renew'd Heart page 117 A Banquetting-House Full of Spiritual Delights HYMN 1. To be Sung at the Baptizing-Place 1 THe Seraphims and Cherubims Angels and Saints above Sing to the Glori'us King of kings inflam'd with divine Love 2 Among the Trees of Pleasure they with Gladness walk and in The Rivers of Delight they may and do with Pleasure swim 3 O! what Soul-charming Musick 's there what sweet Melodious Songs O how Elivated they are innumerable throngs 4 Encompass'd the bespangled Thrown of our Sacred Bridegroom And there before his Feet fall down and his high Praises Tune 5 O how they eecho forth his Praise and make the Heavens ring What Trophies of Honour they raise to him and how they Sing 6 And Warble forth their Heav'nly Notes no Tongue can it express Neither can enter in our Thoughts their Joy and Happiness 7 How gloriously are they bedeck'd with Jewels how they shine The richest Robes of th' Female Sect were not are not so fine 8 As theirs How beautiful they are how charming are their Smiles And the least thing can't enter there which pollutes and defiles 9 What pleasant looks the Lord doth give to his Darlings above With what content and joy they Live in his Eternal Love 10 O who would not but long to be in that most Glori'us Place That so they may these Creatures see and their dear Jesus Face 11 Christ from these Heavens doth look down to see his Spouse below To him each of his Saints are known our Names he well doth know 12 Their Persons and their Tryals too are well known unto him Those Sinners which him come unto he Pardon 's all their Sin 13 Those who his holy Will obey and dare not to neglect The least Command who on him stay he ever will protect 14 He 's come to visit our poor Souls his smiles they do us Charm And whosoever on him rouls shall never come to Harm 15 Both Young and Old he doth receive and in his Bosom lay The worst of Sinners who Believe he 'll conduct in his way HYMN 2. To be Sung at the Sacrament 1 BEhold saith Christ look up and see Your bleeding Dying Lord O look Come hither view me on the Tree And by my dear Father forsook 2 Behold my Wounds Darlings 't is I See here my bleeding Hands and Feet Draw near unto Mount Calvary And at the Cross your Saviour greet 3 See how I Hang behold a sight Enough to pierce a Rocky Heart In your Salvation I delight And therefore with my Life do part 4 I left my August Thrown above To come and Die this shameful Death 'T was no less than Eternal Love That brought me down upon the Earth 5 According to my Father's Will And Purpose I am hither come His holy Pleasure to fulfill And now behold my Work is done 6 His Wrath I bear the Law I 've kept And here the deadly Draught I Drink In me there was there 's no defect Yet from his Justice I 'll not shrink 7 For you I Die I breathe my last And bathed am in my own Blood That so your Souls may not be cast But obtain an Eternal Good 8 What is it Thee thou Prince of Light Our Life our Love our Joy our Friend Be thou our Eternal Delight And let our Praises never end 9 What Love is this what matchless Grace Unto us dost thou manifest That thou should'st suffer this disgrace That we with Life might be possest HYMN 3. To be Sung at the Sacrament 1 HOw Gloriously is Sion's King Exalted on his August Thrown Sweet Songs to him the Angels sing And prostrate at his Feet fall down 2 Whilst we on Earth display his Fame Who for us kept God's holy Law And Dy'd for the breach of the same Tho' himself without spot or flaw 3 When we for Sin condemned were By the impartial Decree Of Divine Justice O what care Did Jesus take our Souls to free 4 From infinite Eternal Wrath He laid his royal Robes aside And as a Servant came to th' Earth His Father's Anger to abide 5 O what a Mystery is this That God himself should cloathed be With Human Nature that all his From Death and