A propheticall love-song by one of the sons of Zion, in the dayes of his youth, in his travel towards the holy land through the wilderness. Being a certain true testimony by an infallible spirit of prophesie, of what should befall him in his safe arrival there, with the certainty of that and his portion then. In which is intermingled the miserable estate of all the gentiles, the wicked world, the backsliding house of Israel, the Jews called by the name of Quakers, as it was given forth about the beginning of the a month, 1661. With several other things since, and some before, as at the beginning of each is expressed. And now published in its season, by John Thomas.

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A propheticall love-song by one of the sons of Zion, in the dayes of his youth, in his travel towards the holy land through the wilderness. Being a certain true testimony by an infallible spirit of prophesie, of what should befall him in his safe arrival there, with the certainty of that and his portion then. In which is intermingled the miserable estate of all the gentiles, the wicked world, the backsliding house of Israel, the Jews called by the name of Quakers, as it was given forth about the beginning of the a month, 1661. With several other things since, and some before, as at the beginning of each is expressed. And now published in its season, by John Thomas.

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Thomas, John, rhymester.

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London :: printed for the author,

in the year, 1661.

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Contents

• title page
• A Propheticall LOVE-SONG.
• The Pedigree of the Seed of Jacob.
• Sobs, sighs, and grones, in deep distresse of spirit, uttered forth in these following lines.
• A few lines from the Author to his Wife in the Country, testifying the manner and na∣ture of his love, springing up in him to∣wards her about the beginning of the 2. month, 1661. that had been vailed many years.
• These ensuing lines were writ upon her An∣swer to the former, but never yet sent.
• The Authors Prayer to God to be delivered out of outward troubles, which depended upon the judgement and determination of the Committee and Commissioners of Excise, who have detained him many Daies and Months to wait on them, and yet refuse to do him justice.
• Some fruits of the Tree of Life brought forth through the Author, about the middle of the 4. Month, 1661.
• To a Maid making silver or gold Lace.
• Of young George Fox.
• To a Maid known by the Name of Anne Robinson (I think call'd a Quaker,) pretending service for the Lord to Jamaica; but its a Lye; for the Word of the Lord was brought unto her by the Author to forbid her the Journey, and to deny her the Mes∣sage, and to tell her, that if she did at∣tempt it, she should die by the way, and never see that Land; which word she stifly denied and contemned: There∣upon were these ensuing lines sent un∣to her by the Author from the Lord God, which shall surely be her portion.
• poem