The banquetting-house, or, A feast of fat things a divine poem, opening many sacred Scripture mysteries ...
Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
HYMN 10.
Hos. 5. 14. God compared to a Lion.
1
I Will like to a Lion be,
I'le tear and will devour,
Thus dost thou say▪ O holy One,
To shew thy wrathful pow'r
2
Against the wicked, who provoke
Thee grievously each day,
When patience does to fury turn,
Thou'lt sweep them all away.
3
Who can the prey deliver from
A hungry Lion? so
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Thou sayst thou willt o're▪throw?
4
A Lion when enrag'd is fierce,
And all before him fly,
So at thy frowns and dreadful wrath,
How will the wicked cry!
5
VVhen once the Lion's heard to roar,
The Beasts of th' Forest quake,
So when thou dost in wrath arise,
Sad tremblings thou wilt make.
6
But if before a Lion one
Himself does prostrate lie
The Lion will not touch his Life,
But leave him, and pass by.
7
So thou, O Lord, wilt such forgive,
VVho do themselves submit,
And by Repentance humbly
Lie prostrate at thy feet.
8
The Lion does sometimes couch down,
As if asleep he lay,
But soon does rise with wrathful frowns,
As greedy of his prey.
9
And thus, O Lord, thou seem'st to sleep,
And wicked men don't fear,
But as a Lion wilt rouze up,
And them to pieces tear.
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Then happy you for whom Christ made
With God a lasting peace,
▪Tis you may sing, for still you'll find
Your Comforts shall increase.
