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A prayer, or, Petition for peace November 22, 1645.
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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Wing D2003; ESTC R37762
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A PRAYER OR Petition for PEACE November 22. 1645. Behold your house is left unto you desolate And Verely yee shall not see mee tell yee say blessed is hee that commeth in the name of the Lord. Printed in the Yeare 1645 A PRAYER AND PETITION for Peace By the Lady Eleanor O Lord the great and dreadfull God As we having sinned deeply and offended guilty of no lesse then open Rebellion by our excluding thee fleeing from thy presence with one voice as it were We will not have this man to raigne over us or He defers his coming as others Even departed from Thy precepts and Iudgements set before us so here prostrate before the footstoole of thy Throne implore nevertheâ—sse pardon and forgivenesse For this no stolne or secret transgression committed But with a high hand and so much the rather presuming on such accesse because the vulgar the burthen and heate of the day though theirs those sheep not guilty or accessary to this trespasse or Capitall crime of deposing thee or opposing the LORDS Returne as in not harkning to the loud voices of the Prophets accomplished His Messengers But to our Kings Princes Heads and Rulers which appertaines so straitly commanded and charged in readynesse to be and watch and signes of the time they discerning them not such celestiall signes and tokens wherefore hast watcht over them as since this a Nation or under the whole Heaven the like unknowne of those Vials 〈◊〉 violently powerd out without doubt Not since the Flood as in this present Century Neither taking warning by our neighbours houses set on fire first like his seting in the front the handmaids and their children or like that great Massy Jmage first smitten in the feet by that stone without hands cut out before broken in peices And thus before hand thought others as lighted Becons for our use yet like the rest lightly weighed Till suddainly like Sampsons seven-fold new cords and green Wyths all pluckt assunder when linked so fast and knit France with great Britaine Spaine with France Germany with Spaine Together with these married Isles or united Kingdomes now in widdowes wofull estate or as the divorced somtime thâ—â— as it been a new world with such creations flourishing and new names and so walking like dayes of old when he voted out was to the open fields No lesse then is not this great Babylon and become as those when God repented he made man brought to a like Ebb or fall as those insaciable Giants Now behold O Lord through a high and heavie hand abased and so low brought humbled to ashes and Sackcloth from the highest to the lowest then tread not one a Worme breake not the bruised reed the wounded smite them not but heare us O thou our Anchor hope and present helpe ready to be consumed utterly and swallowed up if thou calme not and aswage these tempestious working Seas through unruly raging winds let loose wrought and contrived and so praying in His posture when as without raine so long 42. moneths even bowing himselfe double or kneeling on his head also behold our estate since the yeare 1642. these miserable Isles and Kingdomes of ours whose store-houses exhausted like those rivers dried up and like the dead trees burnt up our nation and habitation To conclude Blest as those two and forty unhappy INFANTS torn by two she-Beares and as Gods curse upon them so Lord let thy face shine upon us cause thy voice to be heard that some time speakest to the Fish the fig-tree the deafe the dead and very Divels subject and turnest the hard Rocke into standing waters c. also the waters of this CJTJE heare them for the Lords sake our only Saviour say the word and it is done that from hence forth let there be no more Death c. no more Killing and Slaying J beseech thee FJNIS