A PRAYER, OR Petition for PEACE.  
November 22. 1645.  
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. And Verily ye shall not see me tell ye say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.  
Printed in the Year 1645▪   

A PRAYER AND PETITION for Peace.  By the Lady Eleanor. 
O Lord, the great and dreadful God: As we having sinned deeply and offended guilty of no less than open Rebellion: by our excluding thee, fleeing from thy presence, with one voice (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 judgements set before us, so here prostrate before the footstool of thy Throne, implore neverthe●sse pardon and forgiveness.  
For this no stolen or secret transgression committed, But with a high hand, and so much the rather presuming on such access, because the vulgar, (the burden and heat of the day though theirs,) those sheep not guilty or accessary to this trespass or Capital crime: of deposing thee, or opposing the LORDS Return as in not harkening to the loud voices of the Prophets accomplished, His Messengers. But to our Kings, Princes, Heads and Rulers, which appertains, so straight commanded and charged in readiness to be and watch, and signs of the time, they discerning them not, such celestial signs and tokens, wherefore hast watched over them, as since this a Nation, or under the whole Heaven the like unknown of those Vials 〈◊〉 violently powered out (without doubt) Not since the Flood as in this present Century.  
Neither taking warning by our neighbour's houses set on fire first, like his setting in the front the handmaids and their children, or like that great Massy Image, first smitten in the feet, by that stone without hands cut out, before broken in pieces, And thus before hand thought others as lighted beacons for our use yet like the rest lightly weighed.  
Till suddenly like Sampsons' sevenfold new cords and green Wyths all plucked asunder; when linked so fast and knit, France with great Britain, Spain with France, Germany with Spain, Together with these married Isles or united Kingdoms, now in widow's woeful estate, or as the divorced: sometime th●● as it been a new world, with such creations flourishing, and new names, and so walking like days of old,, when he voted out was to the open fields, No less than is not this great Babylon, and become as those, when God repent he made man, brought to a like Ebb or fall, as those insatiable Giants.  
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 one a Worm, break not the bruised reed, the wounded smite them not, but hear us O thou our Anchor, hope and present help, ready to be consumed utterly and swallowed up, if thou calm not and assuage these tempestuous working Seas through unruly raging winds let lose, wrought and contrived, and so praying in His posture when as without rain so long 42. months, even bowing himself double or kneeling on his head, also behold our estate since the year 1642. these miserable Isles and Kingdoms of ours whose storehouses 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 God's 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 figtree, the deaf, the dead, and very Devil's subject, and turnest the hard Rock into standing waters, etc. also the waters of this CJTJE hear 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, etc. no more Killing and Slaying, I beseech thee.  
FJNIS.