A47607:1326
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.
True Holiness; when he assumed the Throne,
True Holiness; when he assum'd the Throne,
There was a Temple (*) of the Holy One
In Rome, and did continue so, till they
Displaced Christ, (†) and flung his Truth away.
'Tis expressly laid down by the Apostle, as an undoubted Mark of the Man of Sin, viz. That he should sit in the Temple of God. Chrysost. is very express, Hom. 3. 2. Thes. 8. [Greek or Hebrew], that is, not in Jerusalem but in the Church, so Oecumenus, de Rom, lib. 3. cap. 13. and Theoph. Theodor. Ambros. Primus Anselm. Severian. apud imsum. Besides it was to be in a C• with 7 Hills, and where 7 kings of supreme Magistrates were or had been, which agrees to no City ty but Rome, as is demonstrated by peter du Moulin and others; if it be objected, That the Church of Rome at the time of Antichrists Rise, could not be the Temple of God, because upon the Great Apostasy that denomination ceases, it is answered It might be called the Church and Temple of God then, though the Presence of God and the true Religion and Power of Godliness was gone it might retain the Name; as Royal Palaces keep