A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs ‎#CIII

CIII. Divine Love making a Feast, and calling in the Guests

1 How sweet and awful is the Place,
With Christ within the Doors,
While everlasting Love displays
The choicest of her Stores;

2 Here ev'ry Bowel of our God
With soft Compassion rolls,
Here Peace and Pardon, bought with Blood,
Is Food for dying Souls.

[3 While all our Hearts and all our Songs
Join t' admire the Feast,
Each of us cry, with thankful Tongues,
Lord, why was I a Guest?

4 "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?"

5 '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.

6 Pity the Nations, O our God!
Constrain the Earth to come;
Send thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the Strangers home.

4 We long to see thy Churches full,
That all the chosen Race,
May with one Voice, and Heart, and Soul,
Sing thy redeeming Grace.

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet and awful is the Place
• Title: Divine Love making a Feast, and calling in the Guests
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1774

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