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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Sion.

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IF that my Head were Waters, and each Eye

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A brim-full Fountain, I could drain 'em dry.

A brim-full Fountain, I could drein 'em dry.

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I'm steeped in brackish Floods, nay almost drowned,

I'm steep'd in brackissh Floods, nay almost drownd,

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To see how Sin does every where abound.

To see how Sin does ev'ry where abound.

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Where e'er I am, I nought can see or hear,

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