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] |
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The fift speach.
Christ speaketh.
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Who is this that from denns of sinneFrom lusts, & life most leaud
Doth band her selfe gainst all the ill,
& shevves her vvrath, & feud
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Ist not my church? o it is sheeWhom I haue loud of old,
And did her take from povvers of hell
When she vvas bought, & sold.
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And her frō ire of sinne, & shameWhere shee had falne from me
I raisd to life from depth of hell.
I quitt, I sett her free.
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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
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O sett me as a signe, a sealeOn hart, on arme, on all.
O hold me deere, my loue, my Christ
For I to thee doe call.
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Let naught me moue from thy svveet loueLest greefe me gore, & vvoe,
For the least shade vvhen thou art gone
Doth shevv to me my foe.
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The zeale vvhere vvith I loue my DeereIs like the graue most fell
And burnes me vp like coles of fire
To saue my soule from hell.
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