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

Verse

pp. 4911 passages

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.

:1292p. 49

AT first from mean estate (1) this Beast arose,

:1293p. 49

Came from the Earth, and did at length oppose

:1294p. 49

The former Beast, the Roman Empire; he

:1295p. 49

By help of Lombards chased from Italy,

By help of Lombards chac'd from Italy,

:1296p. 49

Usurped his Seat, appropriates his Power,

Us•rpt his Seat, appropriates his Power,

:1297p. 49

And doth the Saints (as bad as he) devour.

:1298p. 49

Popes Tragics are the second part of his.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36