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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(a) The Pope's the Beast, usurping over all, A Power Supreme and Magistratical; This Scarlet Beast does in the strictest sense, Lay claim to Secular Preeminence. The Roman Empire lost the Ruling Seat, The Pope usurped it, and from thence grew great, All Kings that he could by his craft allure, Receive their Power; and Investiture,

(a) The Pope's the Beast, usurping over all, A Power Supream and Magisttraticall; This Scarlet Beast does in the strictest sence, Lay claim to Secular Preheminence. The Roman Empire lost the Ruling Seat, The Pope usurpt it, and from thence grew great, All Kings that he could by his craft allure, Receive their Power; and Investiture,

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This Whore cannot be the Beast.

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