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Distressed Zion relieved, or, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness wherein…Distressed Sion relieved, or, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness wherein…
Distressed Zion relieved, or, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness wherein are discovered the grand causes of the churches trouble and misery under the late dismal dispensation : with a complete history of, and lamentation for those renowned worthies that fell in England by popish rage and cruelty, from the year 1680 to 1688 ... / by Benjamin Keach ...Distressed Sion relieved, or, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness wherein are discovered the grand causes of the churches trouble and misery under the late dismal dispensation : with a compleat history of, and lamentation for those renowned worthies that fell in England by popish rage and cruelty, from the year 1680 to 1688 ... / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1689
Dedication: To their Most Excellent Majesties William and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen…
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.
To own this just and glorious design.
O'er us long hung a black and dismal Cloud,
O're us long hung a black and dismal Cloud,
From whence we feared a dreadful storm of blood;
From whence we fear'd a dreadful storm of blood;
Yet when it brake, nought but sweet dews distil,
Yet when it brake, nought but sweet dews distill,
This, this may sure our souls with wonder fill,