A47607:779
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.
But care not if their Precious Souls be lost:
Are they not guilty of Prodigious Folly
That teach them Courtship, & neglect what's Holy?
A Child untutored, (a mere lump of Sin,)
A Child untutor'd, (a meer lump of Sin,)
May justly curse its cause of having been.
Such as instruct, do doubly them beget,