Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	5,178	5	6.3666	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78587	The character of an agitator	Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702, attributed name.	1645 (1645)	Wing C2003; Thomason E414_3	1,386	7

THE CHARACTER OF AN AGITATOR Novemb 11 th Printed in the Yeare 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 Seperatist and a Seeker by whose principles he is agitated and steared in all his excentrick Motions Hee is an universall Enemy to all Order and Government both in Church and State Hee will have and acknowledge no King Parliament Majestrate or Superiour Power in the State but himselfe and the very Rascallity of the Common People who have beene purified from all their iniquities and made unspotted Saints not by the blood of Iesus but by some new dippers Rebaptization Hee solicites day and night that the King and Members of both Houses of Parliament may be brought to publique Tryall and Execution as the greatest Tray●ors and Tyrants and according to their Father Lilburnes Principles See his juglers discovered page 3 4. and Protestation Make no more scruple of conscience with their owne hands to destroy the King and Members of both Houses of Parliament whom they terme the Tyrants at Westminster who have destroyed all Law and Iustice Equity and Conscience by their Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Will then to destroy so many VVeasells and Pole-cats Hee 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 controle or prescribe any Lawes or Rules unto them Hee is a meere Atheist in his heart a Heretick in his braine a Devill in his tongue a Iesuit in his Consutations a Traytour in his Agitations a Saint only in his pretention hee is very zealous against Tithes and condemnes them as Antichristian because hee would starve the Ministers and as zealous against Bishoppes Deanes and Chapters and yet Petitions for all their Lands and Tithes to satisfie his pretended great Arreares though as Antichristian as their late Possessors or any Tithes or Ministers Hee loves Venery so well that hee so liciteth the Houses for all Forrest Lands to be settled in his fraternity it seemes they are either such wild Beasts already as are fit for nothing but to be sent a grasing into Forrests or desirous to restraine the King his Heires and Successors from the sinne of overmuch hunting or surfeiting upon Venison Hee would have Coppy-hold Tenants pay no Rents or Fines to their Landlord but himselfe The earth is the Saints and the fullnesse thereof and to pay Rents on the foure usuall Saints dayes now abolished to any but Saints and that for pay or free quarter which now eates them out it meere Popery and Superstition In briefe he is such a Monster as dares imprison and murther his King force and blow up a Parliament mutiny a whole Godly Army into high Treason ruine a most glorious City and Kingdome impeach the faithfullest Members and Parliaments best friends of those Treasons of which himselfe in most guilty pleads for a Toleration of all Religions being himselfe of none or any at his pleasure a meere Lawlesse Libertine a firebrand of Superstition who cares not what he speakes or acts feares not whom he offends or slanders is a common enemy to all a true friend to none a wandring Meteor a raging Wave of the Sea a new upstart Mushrome all Head and no Body White in the morning Black VVorme eaten and ranke Poyson before night and hates a Scot and Presbyterian more then either Pope or Devist Hee was begotten of Liburne with Overtous helpe in Newgate nursed up by Cromwell at first by the Army tutored by Mr. Peters counselled by Mr. Walwin and Musgrave patronised by Mr. Martin who sometimes sits in Counsell with them though a Member and is like to dye no where but at Tyburne and that speedily if hee repent not and reforme his Erronious Iudgement and his Seditious Treasonable Practises against King Parliament and Martiall Disciplin● it selfe FINIS