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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
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.
Zion's Children. O dismal state! O miserable case! Enough to daunt all that are void of grace! And crush the bragging of the stoutest mind! But are there still more grievances behind?
Sion's Children. O dismal state! O miserable case! Enough to daunt all that are void of grace! And crush the bragging of the stoutest mind! But are there still more grievances behind?
Zion. Still more behind! O that there were no more! Since they're too many that I've told before: Masters and Servants, Kings and Subjects err In their Relation: does not each prefer ⟨p. 72⟩Base selfish Ends to gratify a Lust, Before what's honest, and supremely just.
Sion. Still more behind! O that there were no more! Since they'r too many that I've told before: Masters and Servants, Kings and Subjects err In their Relation: does not each prefer ⟨p. 72⟩Base selfish Ends to gratifie a Lust, Before what's honest, and supreamly just.
Zion's Friend. Thus, thus I'm sure it was that year when I Published that Book of Zion's Misery; For King and People strangely were misled, And the curst Popish Plot near smothered; And many other horrid shameless crimes I'th' Land were perpetrated in those times, But I'll have done; (Dread Matron) pray declare What th' other Motives of your sorrows are.
Sion's Friend. Thus, thus I'm sure it was that year when I Publisht that Book of Sion's Misery; For King and People strangely were misled, And the curst Popish Plot near smothered; And many other horrid shameless crimes I'th' Land were perpetrated in those times, But I'll have done; (Dread Matron) pray declare What th' other Motives of your sorrows are.