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Songs of Sion

Set for the ioy of gods deere ones, vvho sitt here by the brookes of this vvorlds Babel, & vveepe vvhen they thinke on Hierusalem vvhich is on highe. By W. L. [i.e. William Loe]

Loe, William

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An hymne or song. Of seauen straines, or strings set to the tone of seaven sobs, and sighes of a seaven times seauen sad soule for sinne

The ninth muse.

To him that made these Hymnes.

To him that made these hymns

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The ninth muse.

1

What ayles thee o my soule, my deare,
Such face, such feare to shevve?
Novve death doe come to cite thee home
Is all thy faith, but devve

2

Is death soe fearce, soe fell, to eies,
To thoughts that vvas soe free;
It is a shame to thee my soule
Thou dost noe more Christ see.

3

Where is thy faith? in vvords thou couldst
Call oft for death in life
Is all but talke? is all but smoke?
Where is thy hope so rife?

4

Hath thy svveete Christ novv sent for thee
And art thou loth to goe?
Rouze vp thy selfe for shame o soule
And doe not serue him soe.

5

O lord raise vp this hart of mine
That faints, & droopes in death
O that J might thy cup once tast,
And liue in thy svveete breath.

6

The spright vvould come, but flesh is vveake
Lord helpe this guest of thine,
And rid her from this flesh of sinne
Which is a broode of mine.

7

I come to thee, o lord I come
Streach forth thine hand to me,
O death, o graue vvhere is thy sting?
My crovvne, my god I see.

9. Thought.

They are blest that haue a part in the first life for on such the last death shall haue noe strength but they shal be preests of god, and of Christ. Apoc. 20. 6.