Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books ‎#III.XIII

III.XIII. 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 to 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.

7 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 awfulis the place
• Title: Divine love making a feast, and calling in the guests
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1793
• Scripture:
  Luke 14:17
  ;
  Luke 14:22-23

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