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A81673 A prayer or petition for peace November 22, 1644. Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 1649 (1649) Wing D2001; ESTC R231955 3,790 16

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A Prayer or Petition FOR PEACE November 22. 1644. Behold your house is left unto you desolate And verily ye shall not see me till ye say Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord. without whom yee can Doe Nothing Printed in the Year 1644. A PRAYER PETITION FOR PEACE By the Lady Eleanor O Lord the great and dreadful God as we have sinned deeply and offended guilty of no less then open Rebellion by excluding thee fleeing from thy presence with one voyce as it were We will not have this man to reign over us or He defers his coming as others Even departed from thy Precepts and Iudgements set before us so here prostrate before the foot-stool of thy Throne implore nevertheless pardon and forgiveness For this no stoln or secret transgression committed but with a high hand and so much the rather presuming on this access because hitherto the vulgar the burthen and heat of the day though theirs those sheep yet not guilty or accessary to this trespass or capital Crime or of thy return opposed as manifest in hearkning not to the loud voyces of the Propets accomplished thy Messengers But to our Kings Princes Heads and Rulers which appertains so straitly commanded saying What I say unto you I say unto all Watch the Gentiles watch-word also charged in readiness to be and signs of the time they not them discerning such and such express evident Signs and Tokens haste watch'd over them as sinc ethis a Nation or under the whole Heaven the like unknown witness The Irish Massacres VVinter flight and Sabbath journey those bloody pestilent Vials so violently poured out without doubt not since the Flood as in this present Century Thus neither awakened or taking warning by Forraign Nations as Beacons lighted our neighbors houses set on fire first like Jacob's setting in the front the handmaids and their children whichalarms so lightly weighed til suddenly at last like Sampsons sevenfold new Cords and green wit hs all pluckt asunder when linked so fast and knit France with Great Britain Spain with France Germany with Spain together with these late married Isles or united Kingdoms now in widows forlorn woful Estate or worse as divorced sometime that as had it been a new world with such Creations flourishing Titles all new Names even walking like days of old also become as those when God repented he made Man brought to a like Ebbe or fall as those insasciable Gyants Great Britains Babel Towering thoughts confounded And now behold O Lord through a high and heavy hand abased and so low brought humbled to ashes and sackcloth from the highest to the lowest then tread not on a worm break not the bruised reed the wounded smite them not but hear us out of the deep O thou our Anchor hope and present help ready to be consumed and swallowed up if thou calm not and asswage those working tempestuous Seas through unruly raging winds let loose wrought and contrived And so with him praying in his posture Elijah when as without Rain so long forty two Moneths that prophetical Number prest so much of Three years and a half he bowing himself double or kneeling on his head also behold such our Estate turned upside down since the year 1642. defer us not these miserable Isles and Kingdoms of ours whose Store-houses exhausted like those Rivers dryed up and like the dead Trees burnt up our Nation and Habitation torn between two She-bears like those Forty two ungratious Infants To conclude O forsake us not thou of uspeakable Mercy cause thy face to shine upon us for the Lords sake our alone Saviour Iesus Christ made of the womans seed according to the flesh A woman making her first witness of the resurrection and 〈…〉 ●●●ful tidings to the 〈◊〉 Let thy mighty voyce be heard that speakest sometime to the Fish the Fig-tree the Deaf the Dead and very Devils subjects And at whose motion the Sun and Moon moved not stood still heard him and turnest the hard Rock into standing waters c. also the waters of this city heal them say the word and it is DONE that henceforth let there be no more DEATH no more Killing and Slaying stay thy Hand She beseeches thee A Prayer or Letter for the Peoples Conversion and Deliverance from their Distraction Iune 1649. ANd O Lord of Sabbaths our King the God of Hosts sitting between the winged Cherubims enclosing thy glorious Throne That without delay vouchsafest to hear the humble address of thy Handmaid and the waters according held of our Brittish Jericho witness the very next moneth Decemb. the 5th Anno 1644. a conjuring Letter from the otherside as would answer at the day of Iudgement the contrary c. to lay aside Arms whereas about three moneths after the Enemy waxt at thy consuming presence like melting wax calling to Rocks and Hills or fleeing to hide them were put to flight He vanished in that fashion disguised amazing those that knew him signed with the years of thy right arm 1645. owing since the horrible design Anno 1605. November the 5th which faction he the four and twentieth of those Alban Elders prostrating his Crown so low combined with And the Sword of VVar sheath'd thus as when Elias the Prophet his Supplication presented just three years six months after their departing the City he in that maner led in a string from 1641. January until 1645. June that blow before his downfal Notwithstanding Iustice her Sword dravvn since Kings Princes Head-Rulers going to wrack great Trees felled down as well as those of lower growth amended like that restless mans Estate taking unto him seven spirits more unsufferable after the House swept and adorned the Epilogue or End worse then the beginning pointing to the Spiritual Function especially seeking high places earthly preferment whereat all aym Then here croaching at thy blessed feet for a blessing on the Iubiles insuing year O heavenly bounty royal mercy greater then Solomons exceeding fames report suffices we have bin and are of thy Iustice not wanting an open example a hissiug to all Nations guilty of no petty Treason thine own Servants and Citizens Shuting thee out conspiring against thee outed by disloyal Tenants with those Husbandman also saying the Inheritance shall be ours to us and our heirs accomplished signs and tokens when the Creation groaning to be delivered accompanied with the peoples voices or distempers restored to their old liberty Kingdom against Kingdom witness brethren Nations strugling like Esau and Iacob one house storming the other the Devil the old Serpent for his part storming too his time because knows of no longer continuance a day of publique Thanksgiving deserving rather then sitting up their own horn or to be admired of the world How is it then that they do not understand blaspheme thy name so nigh rave on the world notwithstanding What have we to do with thee O Jesus conjured before the time to torment them not both sex discovering like