THE CHARACTER OF AN AGITATOR.  
Novemb: 11 th'.  
Printed in the Year 1647.   

THE CHARACTER OF AN AGITATOR.  
AN Agitator is a late spurious Monster of John Lilburnes generation, compounded of these Sects unites into one body, an Anabaptist, a Jesuit, a Separatist, and a Seeker, by whose principles he is agitated, and steared in all his eccentric Motions; He is an universal Enemy to all Order, and Government, both in Church and State. He will have, and acknowledge, no King, Parliament, Magistrate, or Superior Power in the State but himself, and the very Rascality of the Common People, who have been purified from all their iniquities, and made unspotted Saints, not by the blood of jesus, but by some new dippers Rebaptisation. He solicits day and night, that the King, and Members of both Houses of Parliament may be brought to public Trial, and Execution, as the greatest Traitors, and Tyrants, and according to their Father Lilburnes Principles [See his jugglers discovered, page 3▪ 4.] and Protestation; Make no more scruple of conscience, with their own hands to destroy the King, and Members of both Houses of Parliament, (whom they term the Tyrants at Westminster, who have destroyed all Law, and justice, Equity, and Conscience, by their Arbitrary and Tyrannical Will) then to destroy so many Weasells. and Polecats. He will acknowledge neither our Churches, nor Ministers, nor Sacraments, nor Ordinances, nor yet the Trinity, or sacred Scriptures themselves, and ere long will deny there is any God at all either in Heaven or Earth to control or prescribe any Laws or Rules unto them. He is a mere Atheist in his heart, a Heretic in his brain, a Devil in his tongue, a jesuit in his Consutations, a Traitor in his Agitations, a Saint only in his pretention; he is very zealous against Tithes, and condemns them as Antichristian, because he would starve the Ministers, and as zealous against Bishops, Deans, and Chapters, and yet Petitions for all their Lands and Tithes to satisfy his pretended great Arrears, though as Antichristian as their late Possessors, or any Tithes, or Ministers. He loves Venery so well, that he so liciteth the Houses for all Forest Lands to be settled in his fraternity, it seems they are either such wild Beasts already as are fit for nothing but to be sent a grazing into Forests, or desirous to restrain the King, his Heirs, and Successors from the sin of overmuch hunting, or surfeiting upon Venison. He would have Copyhold Tenants, pay no Rents or Fines to their Landlord, but himself. The earth is the Saints, and the fullness thereof, and to pay Rents on the four usual Saints days (now abolished) to any but Saints (and that for pay or free quarter which now eats them out) it mere Popery and Superstition.  
In brief he is such a Monster as dares imprison and murder his King, force and blow up a Parliament, mutiny a whole Godly Army into high Treason, ruin a most glorious City and Kingdom, impeach the faithfullest Members, and Parliaments best friends of those Treasons of which himself in most guilty, pleads for a Toleration of all Religions, being himself of none, or any at his pleasure, a mere Lawless Libertine, a firebrand of Superstition, who cares not what he speaks or acts, fears not whom he offends or slanders, is a common enemy to all, a true friend to none, a wand'ring Meteor, a raging Wave, of the Sea, a new upstart Mushroom, all Head and no Body, White in the morning, Black Worm eaten, and rank Poison before night, and hates a Scot and Presbyterian more than either Pope or Devist. He was begotten of Liburne (with Overtous help) in Newgate, nursed up by Cromwell at first by the Army, tutored by Mr. Peter's, counselled by Mr. Walwin and Musgrave, patronised by Mr. Martin, (who sometimes sits in Counsel with them though a Member) and is like to die no where but at Tyburn, and that speedily, if he repent not, and reform his Erroneous judgement, and his Seditious Treasonable Practices against King, Parliament, and Martial Disciplin● it self.   
FINIS.