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A54908	The spirit of error, found and discovered, in the accounted pastors and teachers of the island Bermuda, in the VVest-Indies their principles and practice also tryed by the true spirit, and found to be contrary to the Scriptures of truth, and disproved by them, though pleaded for by the strongest arguments, the said teachers could bring forth : in an answer to some queries that were sent unto them, by us called Quakers : which answer was subscribed with all their names hereafter mentioned : their deceit unfolded for the peoples sake of the island / by ... Richard Pinder.	Pinder, Richard, d. 1695.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2264; ESTC R10836	20,271	25

appeared and their Merchandize spoiled begin to lament and mourn and because in a day misery is come upon them in which they gnaw their Tongues for pain and blaspheme against the Lord and his Tabernacle which now is witnessed to be with men whose day hath appeared to make their abominations manifest and to the discovering of the secrets of their hearts that their Blasphemy against the Lord and his Tabernacle they utter forth because of their sorrow that is come upon them For though they cry to the Mountains and Hils to cover them yet they cannot defend them for a consumption is determined against them entred into their own bowels that Behold when they look for Day Night then cometh upon them and when they look for safety from the Hils and Mountains even sudden destruction cometh upon them that Blackness of Darkness compasseth them about and the deeper they dive to hide their counsel from the Lord the greater will their misery be and the sooner will their measure of iniquity be filled up that the Lord with the Beesom of his wrath may sweep them away For do we read in all the Scriptures that the false Prophets in any generation uttered forth such folly and Ignorance as the false Prophets in this generation do And though you three of Bermuda lay long hid that the envy which was in your hearts against the heritage of God did not so much appear as it did in some of your Brethren yet the Lord hath sought you out that the deceit of your hearts might be made manifest and laid open and that was the end for which I was moved to send my Queries unto you and not that I wanted satisfaction as to my own particular in the things whereof I Queried but that your Belief and Judgement might be brought forth For as many may know you are the least of many hundreds of the men of Darkness which have uttered forth their folly and ignorance in passing their judgements upon us whom God hath made as a terrour unto all the wicked and upon the Gospel of Light which we bear testimony unto which hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World about which Light the most of my Queries unto you was which were sent unto you subscribed with my own name and with George Rofé who also hath given his testimony against you both by his Word and Writing And I having now received an Answer to my Queries I may here set down some of your principal Arguments laid down therein with my Reply unto them that both may be sent into the World that all who fear the Lord may judge thereof The Priests say in answer to the first Querie That there may be a light in man reproving and convincing of sin and yet not sufficient to lead unto life For they say Such a light was in Judas And they say There is a Natural Light in man which Reproveth sinne Answer The Light which convinceth the World of sin is the Spirit of Truth and Christ said It should lead them into all Truth Joh. 16.8 So for you three Priests to say that the Light which convinceth of sin is not sufficient to lead unto Life you might as well say Christ spoke not truth when he said That the Spirit which reproveth the World of sin should lead into all Truth And Judas he turned from the Truth when he betrayed the Innocent into the hands of sinners And when he took money of such envious men as you are for so doing in whom a persecuting spirit soon appeared as you may remember your seeking to the Magistrates to have us banished who witnessed against all deceit and deeds of Darknesse and against your natural Light and against your Preaching by your Natural Learning which the Light that convinceth of sin discovereth to be contrary to what the Apostles Preached who received their Gospel not of man neither was taught it by man Gal. 1.1 but by the Revelation of Christ who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World that through him all might believe and receive life But his Light condemns all such Unbelievers as you are The Priests say in their Answer to another Querie That the Light which discovereth corruption is from Christ but not given to all men Answer The Light which discovereth corruption is One in all John 3. the same to him that believeth as it is in him that believeth not For Christ whose Light convinceth of sin is He that is to judge all Nations of men that be upon the face of the whole earth Yea all you Unbelievers are to be judged by him and according to the Light which he hath enlightned you withal will Judgement be given and you receive reward according to your deeds So it is good for you all now while you have time to give regard to the Light which convinceth of sin and discovereth the corruptions of your own hearts and it will let you see that such as say all are not enlightned with a measure of it are Deceivers and speak contrary to the Scriptures in so saying As you may read 1 John v. 9. The Priests say again That light may be in a man two wayes First they say By proceeding from In-bred Principles brought into the World with him as water is in a Well where it springeth Secondly They say Light may be in a man by infusion or instruction by him that wanted it as water is put into a Well Answer Where do you read that any of the true Prophets Christ or his Apostles told people of light being in them two waies This is but a piece of Sophistry to blind people withall to tell them of light being in them two waies And see how in this you are contrary to the Scriptures For did not the Lord say He would give a Light to the Gentiles which should be his salvation unto the ends of the earth Isa 49. And doth not Simeon say of Christ That he was given a Light to lighten the Gentiles Luke 2.32 And did not Christ himself say I am the Light of the World John 8.12 And did not he say It was the Condemnation that Light was come into the World and men loved Darkness rather than Light because their deeds were evil John 3.19 And did not John say He enlightneth every one that cometh into the World John 1.9 And did not the Apostle say That the light which shined in their hearts gave them the Light of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face ●f Chr●st Jesus 2 Cor. 4.6 So you that are speaking of two Lights are them that darkens Counsel by uttering words without knowledge who tell of an In-bred light which is as water springing in a VVell and of light infused which is as water put into a VVell That you three Priests may read your selves by your own comparison who tell people of light being infused into them by hearing you tell your meanings of the Scriptures and their

The SPIRIT of ERROR Found and Discovered In the accounted Pastors and Teachers of the Island Bermuda in the VVest-Indies Their Principles and Practice also tryed by the True Spirit and found to be contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and disproved by them though pleaded for by the strongest Arguments the said Teachers could bring forth In an Answer to some Queries that were sent unto them by us called Quakers Which Answer was subscribed with all their Names hereafter mentioned Their deceit unfolded for the Peoples sake of the Island By a Servant of the Truth which searches out all iniquity though it work in a Mystery called RICHARD PINDER The Wicked is snared by the transgression of his Lips but the Just shall come out of trouble Prov. 12.13 THe Day of Glory hath appeared the everlasting Gospel is now Preached unto them that dwel upon the earth to the calling all forth off that great and long night of Darkness which hath lain over every Nation Kinred Tongue and People where the Beast and false Prophet hath Reigned and Mysterie Babylon the Mother of Harlots deceived that they upon whom she hath sitten have been as unstable as the Waters and as changeable as the Windes that a Rock or Place to rest upon they have not known but tossed and hurried to to and fro they have been and deceived on every hand through her Inchantments that have filled the whole Earth with spoil and violence through her changeable Waies and Garments which she hath been decked withall since she began to drink the Saints Blood and since she Mysterie Babylon the false Church made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornications which hath made them Reel and Stagger to and fro that they have all lost the way and turned into the by-paths wherein they are groaping like blind men without any glimmering of Light and run and clash one against another and fall on heaps and then burst out like the Waters thinking to swallow all up and then another Wave meets them and here arises Heat and Rage one against another and here People rend and tear one another about the Scriptures and cry it up to be their Rule and Guide to lead them to knowledge but have all lost the Key which should open the Door of true Knowledge and which should open the Scriptures unto them and this Key they hate which is the Light which Christ hath enlightened every one withall and so it is but just on the Lords behalf to give every one of them up to follow the Imaginations of their own hearts being that they hate his Reproof and cast his Law behind their backs And being that they are grown so proud and haughty that they despise waiting for his Counsel that every one doth the thing which seemeth good in his own eyes and there the Lord and his Reproofs are not regarded but rejected neither is his Law there waited for Where man hath chosen his own way in which man seeks to exalt himself and to get a name in the Earth that what man doth in that state he hath a self-end in it whether it be in matters seemingly to bring something to the glory of God or in others yet he hath his own end in it and this is the estate where man is Cursed and all things unto him for his sake and there man is separated from the true and living God and so turned into his own Inventions invents a way to serve and worship him by whom he was made thinking thereby to please him and procure his love Whenas alas he daily rejects his love by turning into his own waies and here the Lords hand is turned against man because of his iniquity which daily aboundeth and is daily brought forth where man hath chosen his own way and turned from the way of God which is but one Now the waies which man hath invented are many and which he hath sought out for himself since he was turned forth of the acceptance with God by reason of his chusing to walk in his own waies And there standeth the craft and subtilty of man in the degenerate state degenerated through the subtilty and craft of him that hath led from the Truth that he cannot savour the things of God his Judgement and Discerning being taken away and in that he is become leavened up into such a temper and frame as he is altogether an Enemy to Truth and Righteousness In this state man calls Truth Error and Error Truth and calls and accounts his own way the way of Righteousness and so puts the Lords VVay and his Judgements afar off and seeketh to do those things which is pleasing in his own eyes and by this perverteth true Judgement and seeketh to be Judge himself over the things which God hath made and there man is not at all willing that God should rule over the work of his own hands but would rule and be Lord and King himself and so goeth on in craft and subtilty as that Power worketh and moveth in him which is at enmity against God for its Kingdom and Exaltation standeth in craft and subtilty and there its strength lyeth by which it is upholden opposing the Lord and his Work and setting its own up in those who are guided by it and so it hath many Instruments which in subtilty and craft under a pretence of Godliness will stand up for it in opposition to the way by which God worketh to manifest his love among the sons of men to reconcile them unto himself again which is onely known through his own Son which in his love he gave a Light into the world that whosoever should believe in him should not abide in Darkness by which people are separated from God but should have the Light of Life And this is He by which God maketh himself known unto the sons of men that through transgression have been destitute of his knowledge and this Word of Reconciliation being now Preached even the Gospel of his onely begotten Son in whom the Father is well pleased and in which man is accepted with him again I say This Gospel being now Preached unto every Nation Kinred Tongue and People over whom the Beast and false Prophet have reigned and Mysterie Babylon and Mother of Harlots bewitched Also now the Power of the enmity standeth up on every Instrument whom it hath fitted to blaspheme reproach the Gospel of Light and glad Tidings which we the despised people commonly called Quakers bear testimony unto though for it we are Hated and Despised and spoken against in every place by them that have pretended to be Preachers of the Gospel of Peace and glad Tidings but are now in this the day of Glory found to be Preachers for the glory of man and for filthy Lucre are now found to be of Mysterie Babylons Merchants which have long deceived the Nations and taken their money for that which is not Bread which now when the day of Glory hath

as Pilate had who delivered the Innocent up into the hands of blood-thirsty-men such Nathaniel White as thy Brethren in New-England are whom thou so highly extolls and art a Pastor of their false Church which is of Mystery Babylons off-spring witness their drinking the Saints blood And though thou with thy two Brethren Brown and Burre tell of searching out the true sence of the Scripture by an Allegory of Faith yet we know so long as you live in headiness high-mindedness and love Pleasures more than God and accuse falsly as you many times did us who witnessed against your deceit we know so long as you are such that your minds are corrupt and that you are reprobate cancerning the Faith 2 Tim. 3.8 which was orce delivered to the Saints before Mystery Babylon 2 Tim. 3.4 your Churches Mother brought forth such Children as you are who live in Pleasure sporting your selves in the day-time as Nathaniel White 2 Pet 2.13 witness thy playing at Bowls and yet by New-Englands false Church and Gathered Congregations is accounted a Reverend Divine The Priests say That to say their Preaching is nothing else but the telling people of their own meanings of the Scriptures is an untruth and that we are never able to prove it Answ Are not you the very men that get your living by telling the people your meanings of the Scriptures for do you not deny the Light which Christ hath enlightned every one withall which should reveal the Mystery the Scripture speaks of which is God manifest in the flesh Do you not deny this and tell people Revelation is not to be looked for in these dayes And what do you say it is an untruth to say you give your own meanings of the Scriptures If an untruth how comes it to passe then that you three Priests are not all of one judgment for certainly if you were guided by that Spirit by which the Scriptures were given forth it would inform your Judgment and bring you into oneness of mind but you being enemies unto the Spirit by which the Saints were led you cannot agree in your meanings about the Scriptures though you are made friends and agree in this thing to joyn your strength together against the Truth as Pilate and Herod But formerly have you not been at difference among your selves and are you not so still even about that you call Church-Government and about those things you say are Institutions of Christ your sprinkling of Infants and giving people Bread and Wine which you call a Sacrament which indeed both it and your sprinkling of Infants are from the POPE and ware instituted by him but as for your not agreeing among your selves about these things I need say little and also for your joyning together against the Truth These things I may both leave to them of that Island who fear the Lord to judge of for they take notice of your unstableness and the day is now coming wherein it may be you may be further tryed But all will be that the deceit and rottenness of your hearts may appear unto all that desire truly to fear the Lord that they with speed may turn from following you in your pernicious wayes lest they be destroyed with you for the snare is before you The Priests say again They use the help of Faithful and Orthodox mens Labours whom God hath commanded them to remember and to follow their faith against which way they say we nor any other can except any thing justly Answ We can justly except against and have already excepted against both you and them you account Orthodox mens Labours for are not you of the generation of men who by their Opinions and by them they count Orthodox mens Opinions have set people on heaps like one to destroy another because they are not of the same Opinion with them And hath not this been the work since the Opinions of those you call Orthodox men were cryed up and since you the Merchants of Mystery Babylon told people they must follow the Faith of those you call Orthodox men whose faith you say you are commanded to follow But alas do not they differ in their Opinions as much as you that have not people by adhering to their works which you traded withall been driven into divers Opinions Sects and VVayes and then seek to destroy one another about them and by this are not you and your Brethren found to be they that have caused so much Blood to be shed among them that have the name of Christions And why do you three Priests not tell us where you have a Command from God to follow the Faith of them you call Orthodox men seeing you say you have But doth it not plainly appear by this that you are the men who have erred from the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Acts 15.9 and which the Saints lived in which gave them victory over the world and purified their hearts Eph 2.8 For is not this the Faith which you have received by tradition from those you account Orthodox men That people cannot be free from sin while here upon earth Now if this be the Faith of the Orthodox men which you say you are to follow then we can justly except both against them and you and your Faith for it is not the Faith of Gods Elect for they that were in it witnessed victory over the world through it and were saved from sin by it 1 Ioh 5.4 The Priests say It is a lye to say they do not exhort people to come to the knowledge of the Scriptures as the free gift of God for they say in their Doctrine they declare it as a gift of Grace given to some and not all we exhort them to beg it of God by Prayer and before we preach we pray with them and for them to God that he would bestow the right understanding of his Word upon them and us they say Answ That which gives a true understanding in the Scriptures which you call the Word is the gift of God which is his Grace which hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 And you that deny and would exclude this Grace from having appeared unto all men are setting up your own Doctrines and Commandments received by Tradition and are crying them up and selling them to your hearers for money and though you both preach and pray with them before you preach yet have you not money for your Praying as well as your Preaching And though you exhort people to beg by prayer from God a right understanding of his Word yet have you not money for this Exhortation But Praises be unto the Lord who among His hath manifested his Word of Life to instruct which is nigh them Deut. 30.14 even in their mouths and in their hearts that they may hear it and obey it And such who know the Instructions of the Word which gives Life they deny your Instructions and Exhortations and Preaching and