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 ye can Do 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 than open Rebellion, by 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 nevertheless pardon and forgiveness.  
For this no stolen or secret transgression committed, but with a high hand; and so much the rather presuming on this access, because hitherto the vulgar (the burden 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 harkening not to the loud voices of the Propets accomplished thy Messengers: But to our Kings, Princes, Heads and Rulers, which appertains, so straight commanded, saying, What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch; the Gentiles watchword also charged in readiness to be; and signs of the time they not them discerning, such and such express evident Signs and Tokens, haste, watched over them, as since ethis a Nation, or under the whole Heaven. the like unknown, witness, The Irish Massacres Winter 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 Foreign Nations) as Beacons lighted our neighbour's houses set on fire first, like Jacob's setting in the front the handmaids and their children: whichalarms so lightly weighed, till suddenly at last, like Sampsons' sevenfold new Cords and greenwiths, all plucked 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 woeful Estate, or worse, as divorced; sometime that as had it been a new world, with such Creation's flourishing, & Titles all new Names, even walking like days of old, also become as those, when God repent he made Man, brought to a like Ebb or fall, as those insasciable Giants, Great Britain's 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 assuage those working tempestuous Seas, through unruly raging winds let lose, wrought and contrived; And so with him praying in his posture, Elijah, when as without Rain so long, forty two Months (that prophetical Number▪ pressed 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 Storehouses exhausted, like those Rivers dried up, and like the dead Trees, burnt up our Nation and Habitation, torn between two She-bears, like those Forty two ungracious 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 jesus Christ, made of the woman's seed according to the flesh: A woman making her first witness of the resurrection and 〈…〉 ●●●ful tidings to the 〈◊〉: Let thy mighty voice be heard, that speakest sometime to the Fish, the Figtree, 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, etc. 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 People's Conversion and Deliverance from their Distraction, june 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 British Jericho, witness the very next month, Decemb. the 5th Anno 1644. a conjuring Letter from the otherside, as would answer at the day of judgement the contrary, etc. to lay aside Arms, whereas about three months after, the Enemy waxed at thy consuming presence like melting wax, calling to Rocks and Hills, or fleeing to hid 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 War sheathed thus, as when Elias the Prophet his Supplication presented, just three years & six months after their departing the City, he in that manner led in a string, from 1641. January, until 1645. June, that blow before his downfall. Notwithstanding, justice her Sword drawn since Kings, Princes, Head-Rulers, going to wrack, great Trees felled down, as well as those of lower growth amended; like that restless man's Estate, taking unto him seven spirits more unsufferable, after the House swept and adorned, the Epilogue or End worse than the beginning, pointing to the Spiritual Function; especially, seeking high places, earthly preferment, whereat all aim.  
Then here croaching at thy blessed feet, for a blessing on the jubiles ensuing year: O heavenly bounty, royal mercy, greater than Solomon's exceeding fames report, suffices we have been and are of thy justice, 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 people's voices or distempers restored to their old liberty: Kingdom against Kingdom, witness, brethren Nations struggling like Esau and jacob, 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 public 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 the dog returned to his excrement, and Sow to the mire, how cleansed from filth, or in grace growing up, how long the graceless world in these budding times, also besotted, look back with Lot's wife, to a sink of sin and corruption, with whose incesstious Daughters the Kings of the Earth matched, for the Mother's sake disinherited, they and their heirs referred to their salique slavish Law, wresting that, That the Lilies spin not, etc. as the pillar displays 〈…〉.  
With his Playhouse for another whether not recorded in Ahabs' reign by our Scotish Bethmite, also (as it were) execrable, jerichos edifice Erected: The foundation laid in his eldest Son, and the gates in his youngest son, executed at the gate; that after demolished those cages, or Monasteries of theirs, for an acknowledgement of the powder plots escape, dedicated that Monster everlasting like Theatre, to the Devil for his Sabbath-service, and other such like.  
New Jerusalem's precious foundations and gates, ought rather much to have looked after, or to have considered the Arks building, which century the seventeenth, we then were entered; the Ark as in length Three hundred cubits measured out by the days of the year, so in breadth fifty, answerable to the weeks thereof; the height of it thirty cubits, according to the days of the month, etc. So teach us to number ours, the sum of it.  
That merciful Lord, except infused special grace: Since so it is, as derive their Name, from BRUTE, So are they, may as well speak to the Ass and Adar to hear, What the Spirit saith unto the churches, or to cause by means of a stick or rod, cast in an Axe to swim, grown (thou seest) so brutish and blockish, well shadowed out in seeing men like Trees walking: without which from above avails as much, as before the Scriptures speaking in the vulgar language: That blessing although not equivolent to the former; how hear we every man in his own language, we born, etc. yet a door, not remote therefrom.  
From whence emboldened do beg, give them leave like as when bitten by fiery Serpents, those vipers; by another beheld in the same likeness were healed; so by these leaves taken from a woman's hand, by them 〈◊〉 (as it were) live may for ever: They by reason of their knowledge puffed up hitherto, even of times and seasons mystery to take their fill, not in season till the evening of time this last ages.  
And since to have knowledge of the disease, though the first step to recovery suffices not: The Medicine if not attained, give them the Spirit of discerning, since come to maturity the Tree of Life, a qualification for of our first parent's expedition, the tree reserved, that casting an eye upon the Map of the world that then was, the Ark Baptisms figure, whereby to measure or parallel the Gospel's pilgrimage and the Floods age together, lifting up the same voice, the swelling Seas sounding their alarm, climbing over Rocks and Mountains, besides an universal flood a year or two ago, over the face of the earth, told then before, There shall be signs in  Heavens, in the Sun and Moon, and in the Stars, the Sea roaring, people at their wits end distracted, etc. witness this sign, A new Star, as seen in the East, the one 74 years before jerusalems' destruction or judgement, so the other in Cassiopei its aspect or influence to the great Year 1644. extended Rev. 7, 14, 21. referred to it; Which Messenger Star likewise appeared seventy four years before our being entered into the very day of judgement, with no ordinary apparitions in the Heavens, The powers of Heaven and Earth shaken both.  
So look upon us amended Lord, 〈…〉 backward Spring with those ungrateful graceless Lepers (asked) Where the nine, etc. cursing hitherto, where thou blessest, such returns. O send down upon the time to come, (though have sinned a great sin) a blessed shower of commiseration for which so much. And for this stolen touch, as virtue when gone from thee, 1649.   
FINIS.