banqueting-house

Sister [my lord attend you in the banqueting-house,] your husband is wondrous discontented.

The White Devil 2007

Sister [my lord attend you in the banqueting-house,] your husband is wondrous discontented.

The White Devil 2007

God is pleased sometimes to give us especial discoveries of himself and his love, to fill the heart with his kindness; Christ takes us into the banqueting-house, and gives our hearts their fills of love; and this by some signal work of his Spirit, overpowering us with a sense of love in the unspeakable privilege of adoption, and so fills our souls with joy unspeakable and glorious.

Of Temptation 1616-1683 1967

In this place it is, by common consent, rendered “A defence” or protection, being so used either by allusion to that refreshment that the Lord Christ, the great bridegroom, gives to his bride in his banqueting-house, [72] or rather in pursuit of the former similitude of the cloud that was over the tabernacle and the ark, which represented the glory of that people.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Great personages, at great entertainments, are had into the banqueting-house, — the house of wine and dainties.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

Sweetness: “He brought me to the banqueting-house,” or “house of wine.”

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

Upon the discovery of the excellency and sweetness of Christ in the banqueting-house, the soul is instantly overpowered, and cries out to be made partaker of the fulness of it.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

She is “sick of love:” not (as some suppose) fainting for want of a sense of love, under the apprehension of wrath; but made sick and faint, even overcome, with the mighty actings of that divine affection, after she had once tasted of the sweetness of Christ in the banqueting-house.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

Oh! support and sustain my spirit with his presence in his ordinances, — those ‘flagons and apples of his banqueting-house,’ — or I shall quite sink and faint!

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

That king, according to one historian, caused a great banqueting-house to be erected, eight hundred feet in compass, after the manner of a theatre.

Inns and Taverns of Old London