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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‘But other grounds of grief are in mine Eye,
‘Which cause my sorrows to advance so high,
‘That my o're-burthen'd Heart can scarce express
‘The nature of my inward heaviness.
‘Which cause my sorrows to advance so high,
‘That my o're-burthen'd Heart can scarce express
‘The nature of my inward heaviness.
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‘Sion, thy sad and bitter lamentation,
‘Does move my very Heart unto compassion;
‘But say, what cause does aggravate your fears,
‘And thus provokes to further cries and tears.
Sion.
‘Oh if my Head were waters, and each Eye
‘A Springing Fountain I could drein 'em dry.
‘I'm steep'd in brackish Floods, nay almost drown'd
‘To see how Sin does ev'ry where abound.
‘This was my cry and moan Eight years ago,
‘And worse since that I find these evils grow;
‘I therefore must repeat them o're again,
‘For these alas do England's Glory stain,
‘And bring reproach likewise on my blest name,
‘The grief of Heaven, and my Childrens shame.
‘A Springing Fountain I could drein 'em dry.
‘I'm steep'd in brackish Floods, nay almost drown'd
‘To see how Sin does ev'ry where abound.
‘This was my cry and moan Eight years ago,
‘And worse since that I find these evils grow;
‘I therefore must repeat them o're again,
‘For these alas do England's Glory stain,
‘And bring reproach likewise on my blest name,
‘The grief of Heaven, and my Childrens shame.
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