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

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(b) What Sin is it but the Pope takes upon him to pardon for Money; besides be makes, the detestable Sins of Treason and Murder, if it be done in Zeal, and by his Authority, for the Promotion of the Pretended Holy Church, meritorious, Canonizing black and brutish Sinners for Saints, in his Calendar, he exalts himself above the Word of God, he usurps Gods Seat, by giving what Interpretation to Gods Law he pleases, which he makes of equal Authority with it.

(b) What Sin is it but the Pope takes upon him to pardon for Money; besides be makes, the detestable Sins of Treason and Murder, if it be done in Zeal, and by his Authority, for the Promotion of the Pretended Holy Church, meritorious, Canonizing black and brutish Sinners for Saints, in his Kalendar, he exalts himself above the Word of God, he usurps Gods Seat, by giving what Interpretation to Gods Law he pleases, which he makes of equal Authority with it.

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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.

:1368p. 57

(b) What Sin is it but the Pope takes upon him to pardon for Money; besides be makes, the detestable Sins of Treason and Murder, if it be done in Zeal, and by his Authority, for the Promotion of the Pretended Holy Church, meritorious, Canonizing black and brutish Sinners for Saints, in his Kalendar, he exalts himself above the Word of God, he usurps Gods Seat, by giving what Interpretation to Gods Law he pleases, which he makes of equal Authority with it.

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