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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

To him that made these Hymnes.

To him that made these hymns

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The fift speach.

Christ speaketh.

1

Who is this that from denns of sinne
From lusts, & life most leaud
Doth band her selfe gainst all the ill,
& shevves her vvrath, & feud

2

Ist not my church? o it is shee
Whom I haue loud of old,
And did her take from povvers of hell
When she vvas bought, & sold.

3

And her frō ire of sinne, & shame
Where shee had falne from me
I raisd to life from depth of hell.
I quitt, I sett her free.

4

For there by faith she leand on me,
And I to her gaue vvay.
Then shee to me did ope her hart,
And thus to me did say.

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The Ievvisch church speaketh

5

O sett me as a signe, a seale
On hart, on arme, on all.
O hold me deere, my loue, my Christ
For I to thee doe call.

6

Let naught me moue from thy svveet loue
Lest greefe me gore, & vvoe,
For the least shade vvhen thou art gone
Doth shevv to me my foe.

7

The zeale vvhere vvith I loue my Deere
Is like the graue most fell
And burnes me vp like coles of fire
To saue my soule from hell.