A47095:70
Zion in distress, or, The sad and lamentable complaint of Zion and her children…
Zion in distress, or, The sad and lamentable complaint of Zion and her children wherein are demonstrated the causes of her miserable calamities, and her faith in God ... : also showing the dreadful controversy God hath with the beast of Rome ...Zion in distress, or, The sad and lamentable complaint of Zion and her children wherein are demonstrated the causes of her miserable calamities, and her faith in God ... : also shewing the dreadful controversie God hath with the beast of Rome ...
London : Printed in the fatal year, 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. 'Tis not for riches of this wicked world, Nor for vain honour, Lord that I do cry; They with a puff alas, oft-times are hurled, They get them wings and quite away do fly; These things I know, dear God, uncertain be, I ask them not, some better things I see.
III. 'Tis not for riches of this wicked world, Nor for vain honour, Lord that I do cry; They with a puff alas, oft-times are hurl'd, They get them wings and quite away dofly; These things I know, dear God, uncertain be, I ask them not, some better things I see.
IV. Nor are they earthly momentary pleasures For which, great God, I come now unto thee, But it is for thy everlasting Treasures, Which now I seek and beg, O Lord, for me; Can Riches, Honours, Pleasures to me give, The things that I do want whilst here I live?
V. No, no, O Lord, the things I ask of thee More precious are; the first that I shall urge, Thy blessed presence, Lord, give unto me; My heart from sin, Lord, also do thou purge. These are the things, in part, for which I cry, Lord, grant me this before I come to die.