A47607:1053
Zion in distressSion in distress
Zion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Church [sic]Sion in distress, or, The groans of the Protestant Chruch [sic]
London: printed by George Larkin for Enoch Prosser, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Why do you judge, that England's Day of Grace
Draws to an Evening, and declines apace?
Show some Prognostics of that dismal Night,
Shew some Prognosticks of that dismal Night,
That threatens to succeed our Gospel-Light.
Zion.
Sion.
When Sol once touches our Meridian Line,