A47607:1211
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.
Who fetter Conscience, and regard a Bribe
Beyond their Souls, be Leaders to our Flocks?
Must paultry Non-sence, and those Apish Mocks,
Mis-called Devotion, fill the House of Prayer?
Mis-call'd Devotion, fill the House of Prayer?
Must Pestilence infect our purer Air?
Must Sodom be translated to our Isle,