The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D. Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes |
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HYMN 13. (C. M.) Divine Love making a Feast, and calling in the Guests, Luke xiv. 17, 22, 23. |
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HYMN 13. (C. M.) Divine Love making a Feast, and calling in the Guests, Luke xiv. 17, 22, 23.
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How sweet and awful is the placeWith Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!
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Here every bowel of our GodWith soft compassion rolls,
Here peace and pardon bought with blood
Is food for dying souls.
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While all our hearts and all our songsJoin to admire the feast,
Each of us cry with thankful tongues
‘Lord, why was I a guest?
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‘Why was I made to hear thy voice,‘And enter while there's room?
‘When thousands make a wretched choice
‘And rather starve than come.’
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'Twas the same love that spread the feast,That sweetly forc'd us in,
Else we had still refus'd to taste,
And perish'd in our sin.
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Pity the nations, O our God,Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.
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We long to see thy churches full,That all the chosen race
May with one voice and heart and soul
Sing thy redeeming grace.
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