A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) ‎#440

440. Divine Love making a Feast

1 How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.

2 Here every bowel of our God
With soft compassion rolls;
Here peace and pardon, love and 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 forced us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

Text Information

• First Line: How sweet and awful is the place
• Title: Divine Love making a Feast
• Author: Watts
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1844
• Topic: Lord's Supper

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