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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‘Where-e're I am, I nought can see or hear,
‘But that which doth my Soul in pieces tear.
‘It breaks my Heart that England thus should be
‘A Scene for th' Actors of Debauchery.
‘What perpetrations of the blackest Crimes
‘Appear not bare-fac'd in our present times?
‘Though God (incens'd) has fearful Judgments sent
‘To humble men, and move them to repent;
‘Yet they proceed in foul impenitence,
‘And aggravate their horrid insolence;
‘Seeming to bid defiance unto Heaven,
‘Scorning to take the dreadful warnings given.
‘But that which doth my Soul in pieces tear.
‘It breaks my Heart that England thus should be
‘A Scene for th' Actors of Debauchery.
‘What perpetrations of the blackest Crimes
‘Appear not bare-fac'd in our present times?
‘Though God (incens'd) has fearful Judgments sent
‘To humble men, and move them to repent;
‘Yet they proceed in foul impenitence,
‘And aggravate their horrid insolence;
‘Seeming to bid defiance unto Heaven,
‘Scorning to take the dreadful warnings given.
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