Eugenia's tears for Great Britons distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…Evgenia's teares for Great Brittaynes distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…

thy Harps and Music lye mute, thy heart is filled with fears and Plaints, yea and thy Temples almost forsaken; thou hast not Aza's sickness in thy feet•, but thy heart ⟨p. 15⟩and art near (with Hezekiah) wounded to death unless thou use his Physician, his remedy; thou that wert in thy full brightness, art now likely to droop into the wane of misery; and which is worse it will not profit thee to seek outward cure, whilst thou hast thy * executioners within; thy Garments (thus¹ rent) are subject to be torn with every brier; thy glory is defaced, yet seek not (with the Elephant) fo• muddy channels to hide thy deformity, but some Crystal stream as well to delineate, as cure thy malady; thy grief then being over-past shall be pleasant to thy remembrance; till when bite not at the stone and neglect him that threw it, neither in thy suffering evils so far look on secondary causes as not to reflect on the highest; thy abstinence must be thy cure; and (like poison used to a good Medicine) thy sins and afflictions must prove thy gain. In Arts divers subjects have no life or essence, but in the agitation, and disputing; and as in virtue of two equal effects, we hold that the fairest & worthyest, which affordeth most lets, and wherein are proposed greatest hazards, so who knoweth whither it be not one especial effect of Gods divine providence, thus to suffer his true Church to be vexed and turmoiled with no fewer blasts then turbulent Storms, whereby •orowze, and awaken the godly and Religious •oules from that Lethal security, and •upified slumber wherein so long tranquillity hath plunged them; & O thou supreme director of all things, look down on thy distressed Zion, pity her tears, support her fears (bred from the seditious dregs of slimy ignorance) •eepe her sides from wounding, let her triumph ⟨p. 16⟩still in her Sovereign head, and •et not those whi• lewindes dim her light; O how sacred were those tears once cast on Jerusalem deploring their disease, & Prophesying their woes far exceeding those spent on the banks of Tigris, or those sower-set Hebraic Plaints poured forth by mournful Captives (banished