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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Your last most gracious offer, That you'l ease
Your Subjects of so great a Tax, doth please,
And them obliges to that high degree,
They all will strive who shall most Loyal be.
Your Subjects of so great a Tax, doth please,
And them obliges to that high degree,
They all will strive who shall most Loyal be.
Your Justice in asserting each mans right,
To Worship God according to that Light
He hath receiv'd, will multitudes procure,
To own your Interest, and your Rights secure.
For who will not to Cæsars Cause be true,
When Cæsar unto God doth give his due?
And the Almighty's Government will maintain,
Who over Conscience is sole Soveraign,
If any do the Civil State disturb,
On such you justly ought to put a curb,
But if like Men, and Christians they do live,
Doubtless just Liberty to them you'l give.
To Worship God according to that Light
He hath receiv'd, will multitudes procure,
To own your Interest, and your Rights secure.
For who will not to Cæsars Cause be true,
When Cæsar unto God doth give his due?
And the Almighty's Government will maintain,
Who over Conscience is sole Soveraign,
If any do the Civil State disturb,
On such you justly ought to put a curb,
But if like Men, and Christians they do live,
Doubtless just Liberty to them you'l give.
Nor will our Parliament this Right deny,
Whose Protestant zeal, hath rais'd their Fame so high
For you we ought to praise the God of Heaven,
Who by your means such blessings hath us given,
When all our Liberties were near infring'd,
And Englands Fundamental Laws unhing'd,
When all things both in Church and State did run
To ruin; and we judg'd our selves undone,
You under God, have now restor'd our Laws,
And likewise have defended Sions Cause.
The Mighty God (Dread Prince) chose you to be
Our only help in great extremity.
With double blessings may you both be Crown'd,
Who in compassion to us did abound.
My Children resolve unanimously
With you to stand and fall; To live and dye:
With hazard of your life their Chains you broke,
And off their necks remov'd the Romish Yoke;
With vast expence you this great act have done,
And of your Person have much danger run.
Shall I not then with all my Children cry,
We with our King and Queen will live and die?
Our lives we, under God, to you do owe,
And therefore whatsoever we can do,
Can't be too much; And in a grateful way
We ought to strive your goodness to repay;
We find our rising proves our Enemies fall,
Where are they now that did us then inthrall?
They dig'd a Pit, and in it fallen are,
Yea wonderfully catcht in their own snare.
This is Gods doing, and is marvellous,
Even to our Enemies as well as us.
And therefore now my self I must address,
Unto the God of Truth and Righteousness,
I'le lift my Soul to him in Thanks and Praise,
And ne're forget his Wonders in these days.
Whose Protestant zeal, hath rais'd their Fame so high
For you we ought to praise the God of Heaven,
Who by your means such blessings hath us given,
When all our Liberties were near infring'd,
And Englands Fundamental Laws unhing'd,
When all things both in Church and State did run
To ruin; and we judg'd our selves undone,
You under God, have now restor'd our Laws,
And likewise have defended Sions Cause.
The Mighty God (Dread Prince) chose you to be
Our only help in great extremity.
With double blessings may you both be Crown'd,
Who in compassion to us did abound.
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With you to stand and fall; To live and dye:
With hazard of your life their Chains you broke,
And off their necks remov'd the Romish Yoke;
With vast expence you this great act have done,
And of your Person have much danger run.
Shall I not then with all my Children cry,
We with our King and Queen will live and die?
Our lives we, under God, to you do owe,
And therefore whatsoever we can do,
Can't be too much; And in a grateful way
We ought to strive your goodness to repay;
We find our rising proves our Enemies fall,
Where are they now that did us then inthrall?
They dig'd a Pit, and in it fallen are,
Yea wonderfully catcht in their own snare.
This is Gods doing, and is marvellous,
Even to our Enemies as well as us.
And therefore now my self I must address,
Unto the God of Truth and Righteousness,
I'le lift my Soul to him in Thanks and Praise,
And ne're forget his Wonders in these days.
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