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<P>A Prayer or Petition FOR PEACE.</P>
<P>November 22. 1644.</P>
<P>Behold, your hou&s;e is left unto you de&s;o|late; And verily ye &s;hall not &s;ee me, till ye &s;ay, Ble&s;&s;ed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord. <ADD>without whom yee can Doe Nothing.</ADD></P>
<P>Printed in the Year, 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>A PRAYER &amp; PETITION FOR <HI>PEACE.</HI></HEAD>
<BYLINE>By the Lady <HI>Eleanor.</HI></BYLINE>
<P>O Lord, the great and dreadful God, as we have &s;inned deeply and offended, guilty of no le&s;s then open Rebellion, by excluding thee, fleeing from thy pre&s;ence with one voyce (as it were) <HI>We will not have this man to reign over us</HI> (or) <HI>He defers his coming,</HI> as others; Even departed from thy Precepts and Iudgements &s;et before us: &s;o here pro&s;trate before the foot-&s;tool of thy Throne, implore ne|verthele&s;s pardon and forgivene&s;s.</P>
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For this no &s;toln or &s;ecret tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ion committed, but with a high hand; and &s;o much the rather pre&s;uming on this acce&s;s, becau&s;e hitherto the vul|gar (the burthen and heat of the day though theirs) tho&s;e &s;heep yet not guilty or acce&s;&s;ary to this tre&s;pa&s;s or capital Crime, or of thy return op|po&s;ed, as manife&s;t in hearkning not to the loud voyces of the Propets accom|pli&s;hed thy Me&s;&s;engers: But to our Kings, Princes, Heads and Rulers, which appertains, &s;o &s;traitly com|manded, &s;aying, <HI>What I &s;ay unto you, I &s;ay unto all, Watch;</HI> the <HI>Gentiles</HI> watch|word al&s;o charged in readine&s;s to be; and &s;igns of the time they not them di&s;cerning, &s;uch and &s;uch expre&s;s evi|dent Signs and Tokens, ha&s;te, watch'd over them, as &s;inc ethis a Nation, or
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under the whole Heaven. the like un|known, witne&s;s, The Iri&s;h Ma&s;&s;acres VVinter flight, and Sabbath journey, tho&s;e bloody pe&s;tilent Vials, &s;o vio|lently poured out (without doubt) not &s;ince the Flood as in this pre&s;ent Century.</P>
<P>Thus neither (awakened or) taking warning (by Forraign Nations) as Beacons lighted our neighbors hou&s;es &s;et on fire fir&s;t, like <HI>Jacob</HI>'s &s;etting in the front the handmaids and their chil|dren: whichalarms &s;o lightly weigh|ed, til &s;uddenly at la&s;t, like <HI>Samp&s;ons</HI> &s;e|venfold new Cords and green withs, all pluckt a&s;under when linked &s;o fa&s;t and knit, <HI>France</HI> with <HI>Great Britain, Spain</HI> with <HI>France, Germany</HI> with <HI>Spain;</HI> together with the&s;e late married I&s;les or united Kingdoms, now in wi|dows
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forlorn woful E&s;tate, or wor&s;e, as divorced; &s;ometime that as had it been a new world, with &s;uch <HI>Creations</HI> flouri&s;hing, &amp; Titles all new <HI>Names,</HI> even walking like days of old, al&s;o be|come as tho&s;e, when God repented he made <HI>Man,</HI> brought to a like Ebbe or fall, as tho&s;e in&s;a&s;ciable Gyants, Great <HI>Britains Babel</HI> Towering thoughts confounded.</P>
<P>And now behold, O Lord, through a high and heavy hand aba&s;ed and &s;o low brought, humbled to a&s;hes and &s;ackcloth, from the highe&s;t to the low|e&s;t; then tread not on a worm, break not the brui&s;ed reed, the wounded &s;mite them not; but hear us out of the deep, O thou our Anchor, hope and pre&s;ent help, ready to be con&s;umed and &s;wallowed up, if thou calm not
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and a&s;&s;wage tho&s;e working tempe&s;tu|ous Seas, through unruly raging winds let loo&s;e, wrought and contri|ved; And &s;o with him praying in his po&s;ture, <HI>Elijah,</HI> when as without <HI>Rain</HI> &s;o long, forty two Moneths (that pro|phetical Number&punc;pre&s;t &s;o much, of Three years and a half) he bowing him&s;elf double, or kneeling on his head; al&s;o behold &s;uch our E&s;tate turned up&s;ide down, &s;ince the year 1642. defer us not the&s;e mi&s;erable I&s;les and Kingdoms of ours, who&s;e Store|hou&s;es exhau&s;ted, like tho&s;e Rivers dryed up, and like the dead Trees, burnt up our Nation and Habitation, torn between two She-bears, like tho&s;e Forty two ungratious Infants.</P>
<P>To conclude (O for&s;ake us not! thou of u&s;peakable Mercy) cau&s;e thy
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face to &s;hine upon us, for the Lords &s;ake, our alone Saviour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, made of the womans &s;eed according to the fle&s;h: A woman making her fir&s;t witne&s;s of the re&s;urrection and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ful tidings to the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">: Let thy mighty voyce be heard, that &s;peake&s;t &s;ometime to the Fi&s;h, the Fig-tree, the Deaf, the Dead, and very Devils &s;ubjects; And at who&s;e motion the Sun and Moon moved not, &s;tood &s;till, heard him; and turne&s;t the hard Rock into &s;tanding waters, &amp;c. al&s;o the waters of this city, heal them; &s;ay the word and it is DONE, that henceforth let there be no more DEATH, no more Kil|ling and Slaying, &s;tay thy Hand She be&s;eeches thee.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer or Letter for the Peoples Conver&s;ion and Deliverance from their Di&s;traction, <HI>Iune</HI> 1649.</HEAD>
<P>ANd O Lord of Sabbaths, our King, the God of Ho&s;ts &s;itting between the winged Cherubims, en|clo&s;ing thy glorious Throne; That without delay vouch&s;afe&s;t to hear the humble addre&s;s of thy Handmaid, and the waters according held of our Britti&s;h <HI>Jericho,</HI> witne&s;s the very next moneth, <HI>Decemb.</HI> the 5^t^h <HI>Anno</HI> 1644. a conjuring Letter from the other&s;ide, as would an&s;wer at the day of Iudge|ment the contrary, &amp;c. to lay a&s;ide Arms, whereas about three moneths after, the Enemy waxt at thy con|&s;uming pre&s;ence like melting wax, calling to Rocks and Hills, or fleeing to hide them were put to flight: He
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vani&s;hed in that fa&s;hion di&s;gui&s;ed, a|mazing tho&s;e that knew him, &s;igned with the years of thy right arm, 1645. owing &s;ince the horrible de&s;ign <HI>Anno</HI> 1605. <HI>November</HI> the 5^t^h which facti|on (he the four and twentieth of tho&s;e Alban Elders, pro&s;trating his Crown &s;o low) combined with.</P>
<P>And the Sword of VVar &s;heath'd thus, as when <HI>Elias</HI> the <HI>Prophet</HI> his Supplication pre&s;ented, ju&s;t three years &amp; &s;ix months after their depart|ing the City, he in that maner led in a &s;tring, from 1641. <HI>January,</HI> until 1645. <HI>June,</HI> that blow before his downfal. Notwith&s;tanding, Iu&s;tice her Sword dravvn &s;ince Kings, Princes, Head-Rulers, going to wrack, great Trees felled down, as well as tho&s;e of lower growth amended; like that re&s;tle&s;s
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mans E&s;tate, <HI>taking unto him &s;even &s;pi|rits more un&s;ufferable,</HI> after the Hou&s;e &s;wept and adorned, the Epilogue or End wor&s;e then the beginning, point|ing to the Spiritual Function; e&s;peci|ally, <HI>&s;eeking high places, earthly prefer|ment, whereat all aym.</HI></P>
<P>Then here croaching at thy ble&s;&s;ed feet, for a ble&s;sing on the Iubiles in&s;u|ing year: O heavenly bounty, royal mercy, greater then <HI>Solomons</HI> exceed|ing fames report, &s;uffices we have bin and are of thy Iu&s;tice, not wanting an open example, <HI>a hi&s;&s;iug to all Nations,</HI> guilty of no petty Trea&s;on, thine own Servants and Citizens, <HI>Shuting thee out, con&s;piring again&s;t thee;</HI> outed by di&s;loyal Tenants: with tho&s;e Hus|bandman al&s;o &s;aying, <HI>the Inheritance &s;hall be ours, to us and our heirs;</HI> accom|pli&s;hed &s;igns and tokens when, the
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Creation groaning to be delivered, accompanied with the peoples voices or di&s;tempers re&s;tored to their old li|berty: <HI>Kingdom again&s;t Kingdom,</HI> wit|ne&s;s, <HI>brethren Nations &s;trugling like</HI> E&s;au <HI>and</HI> Iacob, <HI>one hou&s;e &s;torming the other,</HI> the Devil the old Serpent, for his part &s;torming too, his time becau&s;e knows of no longer continuance; a day of publique Thank&s;giving, de&s;erving rather then &s;itting up their own horn, or to be admired of the world.</P>
<P><HI>How is it then that they do not under|&s;tand, bla&s;pheme thy name &s;o nigh:</HI> rave on the world; notwith&s;tanding, <HI>What have we to do with thee, O Je&s;us,</HI> con|jured before the time, <HI>to torment them not,</HI> both &s;ex di&s;covering, <HI>like the dog returnd to his excrement, and Sow to the mire,</HI> how clean&s;ed from filth, or in grace growing up, how long the grace|le&s;s
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world in the&s;e budding times, al&s;o be&s;otted, look back with <HI>Lots</HI> wife, to a &s;ink of &s;in and corruption, with who&s;e ince&s;stious Daughters the Kings of the Earth matched, for the Mothers &s;ake di&s;inherited, they and their heirs referred to their &s;alique &s;lavi&s;h Law, wre&s;ting that, <HI>That the Lillies &s;pin not,</HI> &amp;c. as the pillar di&s;plays <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">.</P>
<P>VVith his Play-hou&s;e for another whether not recorded in <HI>Ahabs</HI> reign by our Scoti&s;h Bethmite, al&s;o (as it were) execrable, <HI>Ierichos</HI> edifice Ere|cted: <HI>The foundation laid in his elde&s;t Son, and the gates in his yonge&s;t &s;on, ex|ecu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed at the gate;</HI> that after demoli&s;hed tho&s;e cages, or Mone&s;taries of theirs, for an acknowledgment of the pow|der plots e&s;cape, dedicated that Mon|&s;ter everla&s;ting like Theator, to the Devil for his Sabbath-&s;ervice, and o|ther &s;uch like.</P>
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New <HI>Jeru&s;alems</HI> precious founda|tions and gates, ought rather much to have looked after, or to have con&s;i|dered the Arks building, which cen|tury the &s;eventeenth, we then were en|tred; the Ark as in length Three hundred cubits mea&s;ured out by the days of the year, &s;o in breadth fifty, an&s;werable to the weeks thereof; the hight of it thirty cubits, according to the days of the moneth, &amp;c. So teach us to number ours, the &s;um of it.</P>
<P>That merciful Lord, except infu|&s;ed &s;pecial grace: Since &s;o it is, as de|rive their Name, from <HI>BRUTE, So are they,</HI> may as well &s;peak to the A&s;s and Adar to hear, <HI>What the Spirit &s;aith unto the churches,</HI> or to cau&s;e by means of a &s;tick or rod, ca&s;t in an Ax to &s;wim, grown (thou &s;ee&s;t) &s;o bruti&s;h and blocki&s;h, well &s;hadowed out in
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&s;eeing men like Trees walking: with|out which from above avails as much, as before the Scriptures &s;peaking in the vulgar language: <HI>That ble&s;sing although not equivolent to the former; how hear we every man in his own lan|guage, we born,</HI> &amp;c. yet a door, not re|mote therefrom.</P>
<P>From whence emboldned do beg, give them leave like as when bitten by fiery Serpents, tho&s;e vipers; by another beheld in the &s;ame likene&s;s were healed; &s;o by the&s;e leaves taken from a womans hand, by them <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> (as it were) live may for ever: They by rea&s;on of their knowledge puft up hitherto, even of times and &s;ea&s;ons mi&s;tery to take their fill, not in &s;ea&s;on till the evening of time this la&s;t ages.</P>
<P>And &s;ince to have knowledge of the di&s;ea&s;e, though the fir&s;t &s;tep to reco|very
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&s;uffices not: The Medicine if not attained, give them the Spirit of di&s;cerning, &s;ince come to maturity the Tree of Life, a qualification for of our fir&s;t parents expedition, the tree re&s;er|ved, that ca&s;ting an eye upon the Map of the world that then was, the Ark Bapti&s;ms figure, whereby to mea&s;ure or parallel the Go&s;pels pilgrimage and the Floods age together, lifting up the &s;ame voice, the &s;welling Seas &s;ound|ing their alarm, climbing over Rocks and Mountains, be&s;ides an univer&s;al flood a year or two ago, over the face of the earth, told then before, <HI>There &s;hal be &s;igns in tht Heavens, in the Sun and Moon, and in the Stars,</HI> the Sea roar|ing, people at their wits end di&s;tract|ed, &amp;c. witne&s;s this &s;ign, A new Star, as &s;een in the Ea&s;t, the one 74 years before <HI>Ieru&s;alems</HI> de&s;truction or judg|ment,
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&s;o the other in <HI>Ca&s;siopei</HI> its a|&s;pect or influence to the great Year 1644. extended <HI>Rev.</HI> 7, 14, 21. refer'd to it; VVhich Me&s;&s;enger Star likewi&s;e appeared &s;eventy four years before our being entred into the very day of judg|ment, with no ordinary apparitions in the Heavens, <HI>The powers of Heaven and Earth &s;haken both.</HI></P>
<P>So look upon us amended Lord, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ck-<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">rd Spring vvith tho&s;e ungrateful gracele&s;s Lepers (asked) <HI>Where the nine,</HI> &amp;c. cur&s;ing hitherto, vvhere thou ble&s;&s;e&s;t, &s;uch returns. O &s;end down upon the time to come, (though have &s;inned a great &s;in) a ble&s;|&s;ed &s;hower of commi&s;eration for which &s;o much. And for this &s;tollen touch, as vertue when gone from thee, 1649.</P>
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