Distressed Sion Relieved Or, The Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness. Wherein are Discovered the Grand Causes of the Churches Trouble and Misery under the late Dismal Dispensation. With a Compleat History of, and Lamentation for those Renowned Worthies that fell in England by Popish Rage and Cruelty, from the Year 1680 to 1688. Together with an Account of the late Admirable and Stupendious Providence which hath wrought such a sudden and Wonderful Deliverance for this Nation, and Gods Sion therein. Humbly Dedicated to their Present Majesties. By Benjamin Keach |
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1683.
Sydney, dear Sydney treacherously fell,Whom I esteem'd a Prince in Israel;
Those Laws that were intended for defence,
Were wrested so thou couldst not have from thence
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Although on thee no guilt at all did lye,
Jury and Judge dealt so inhumanely.
What hadst thou done? what cause of death in thee
For Sion 'twas; 'twas for thy Love to me.
Thy Principles were such, Hell could not bear
The thoughts thereof, though publisht they ne're were
Thou wast too Just, and hadst such piercing Eyes,
Those Hellish Statesmen doubted a surprize,
And therefore made thee a third Sacrifice.
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