ZION in DISTRESS: OR, THE GROANS OF THE Protestant CHRUCH.Lam. I, 12. Is there any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow?Vers. 17. Zion spreadeth forth her Arms, and there is none to comfort her.Vers. 20. Behold, O Lord, I am in DISTRESS!—Quis talia FandoTemperet a lachrimis?—Virgil.LONDON: Printed by George Larkin, for Enoch Prosser, at the Sign of the Rose and Crown in Sweethings-Alley, at the East End of the Royal Exchange, 1681.SION in DISTRESS: OR, THE GROANS OF THE Protestant CHRUCH.Lam. I, 12. Is there any Sorrow like unto my Sorrow?Vers. 17. Sion spreadeth forth her Arms, and there is none to comfort her.Vers. 20. Behold, O Lord, I am in DISTRESS!—Quis talia FandoTemperet a lachrimis?—Virgil.LONDON: Printed by George Larkin, for Enoch Prosser, at the Sign of the Rose and Crown in Sweethings-Alley, at the East End of the Royal Exchange, 1681.Title page of Zion in distress, London, 1681Zion in distressSion in distressBenjamin Keach, 1681

To his Friend the AUTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.To his Friend the AVTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.

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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.

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To his Friend the AUTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.

To his Friend the AVTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.

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What Muse is this, that thus inspires thy Brain,

WHat Muse is this, that thus inspires thy Brain,

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And leads thy Genius to so high a Strain?

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Must thy Aspiring Fancy now rehearse

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Thy Mothers Groans in an Elegiac Verse?

Thy Mothers Groans in an Elegiack Verse?

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Is Prose too mean and unregarded now,

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That still in Verse thou lettest the World know how

To his Friend the AUTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.

To his Friend the AVTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.

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To his Friend the AUTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.

To his Friend the AVTHOR, On the FIRST IMPRESSION.