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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

of lies and your agreement with Hell shall be broken and your Covenant with Death disannulled that the Truth may appear unto all who have a desire to walk therein from under that sad sable Cloud of Obloquie which thou Nathaniel White used to tell of which indeed lies thick upon thee that thou canst not see that thou art fallen into the snare but joyns with the other two Priests Brown and Burre in those things which sometime thou wouldst have been ashamed to have owned and pleaded for But evil men and Seducers wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived That this is written for the sake of such in that Island of Bermuda as might be deceived by you by your perverting and scandalizing the Truth in your envy and hatred against it 2 Tim. 3.13 which no little hath appeared since first the Truth was bore testimony unto before you and your Hearers a Remnant of which the Lord will yet gather from the mouths of all such dumb Shepherds that he might teach them himself according to his Promise and put his Law in their mindes and his fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from him Heb. 10.16 The Priests in their Answer to our last Querie which was concerning singing Davids conditions in Rime and Meeter To this they say That God is no respecter of Persons but giveth the same condition to all his servants And they say They have an express Command for singing of Psalmes Col. 3.16 Jam. 5.13 And the example of Christ and his Apostles Matth. 26.30 Acts 16.25 And they say If we think that we can find more fit Psalms than Christ acknowledged to be holy Scripture we may speak our mindes and they say they will answer it Answ None of these Scriptures which you have mentioned speak any thing of singing Davids Prayers Quakings and Lamentations in Rime and Meeter as you do for Davids Psalms were turned into meeter by the Protestants since they turned from the Papists Neither do we believe that your Hearers whom you sing with are in Davids conditions but are as far from them as you Covetous Teachers are your selves that we know and believe that you cannot admonish one another in Psalms Hymns and spiritual Songs nor sing with grace in your hearts unto the Lord which that place of Scripture which you mention saith Col. 3.16 For you are such whose hearts are exercised with Covetous Practices who have forsaken the right way and are following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousness as you do 2 Pet. 2.14 15. That you are far from Davids Condition and from singing unto the Lord with grace in your hearts for they are carried away with Covetousness as your fruits make it manifest in your so much pleading and preaching for filthy lucre which Christ and his Apostles whose words you Covetous men are not ashamed to speak of declared against And you need not tell us of Christs owning Davids Writings to be holy Scripture for we know that David was a man that feared God and hated such covetous practices as you are found guilty of But we know no command Tho. Sternhold nor John Hopkins had nor yet the New-England blood-thirsty-men for putting his Writings in Rime and Meeter neither to adde their own Inventions to them to make them that Drunkards and Swearers might sing them in a Tune which even thou Nathaniel VVhite dost often bid them keep when they are not diligent in singing as thou wouldst have them but misses Tune And that place you mention Mat. 26.30 speaks nothing of Christ and his Apostles singing Davids Writings but saith they sung an Hymn And we know Paul sung Praises unto the Lord as in Acts 16.25 though he was put into the Stocks and received many Stripes for reproving the Spirit of Divination in the Woman who through South-saying brought in her Master great gain but when he saw the hope of it was gone he went about to persecute the Servants of the Lord in whom the Spirit of Truth was and haled them before the Magistrates as Nathaniel White George Rofe was for speaking to thee that when thou perceivedst that thy deceit was like to be laid open to the people cryed out to the Magistrates beseeching them not to let him speak there But Nathaniel VVhite if thou hadst spoken nothing but sound words which could not have been condemned why didst thou not stand by them For if thy Church be the true Church it is built upon that which the gates of Hell cannot prevail against But you Priests being erred through Covetousness and your Church being of her off-spring which is to be burned with fire and you having lost the Spiritual Weapons you are fain to fly to the Mountains and Hills for defence but they cannot defend you nor cover you but your deceit and nakedness daily appeareth as it doth in this thing your pleading for the singing of Davids Conditions in rime and meeter which conditions you your selves never knew that though you say God giveth the same Condition to all his Servants yet you are not come to the Servants state but are with many of your hearers like a company of untamed Heifers who are not accustomed to the yoke nor are not yet come to know the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom nor to depart from iniquity which is the good understanding that you are not like to sing with the Spirit and with understanding so long as you live in those things which the Spirit testifies against That if you three Priests truly search your selves and let the Witness of God rise in you it will let you see that you are such as James speaks of in that place you mention Iam. 5.12 who were fallen into the condemnation and so are short of the condition James speaks of in ver 13. in which every one that was afflicted might pray and he that was merry sing Psalms For you may also read Jam. 1.22 That he whose tongue is not bridled his Religion is vain And how had Jonathan Burre his tongue bridled when he called George Rofe Butter-whore and prating Asse But it may be Nathaniel White thou wilt say thou dost not own him in it but tell me then how it comes to passe that thou joynest with him and Brown in pleading for such things as here before-mentioned which was set down in you● own Paper by way of Answer to our Queryes which Paper was given into my hands with all your Names to it And many things more I might have gathered out of it than here is by which I might have manifested your erring from the Scriptures of Truth but so much here is discovered of your Blindness and Ignorance of the things of God that any who love the appearance of the Witness of Truth in themselves may easily see of what sort of Teachers you are And you the Inhabitants of Bermuda who are following on after those Traditions which these men which before I have spoken of lead you unto that you may confider what you joyn with and receive for Doctrine for as you may read in the Scripture there were some that taught the Commandments of men for Doctrine and so through their own Traditions made void the Law of God Matth. 15.9 Mark 7.11 Col. 2.14 20 21. and the Righteousness which is of Faith which who cometh to know knows it to end all those things which stood in the Law contained in Ordinances and divers Washings and such things which was imposed until the time of Reformation that the Seed should come which ends all the Types Figures and Shadows and gives to see beyond all external things which the minds of people are after until they come to feel that Righteousness which is of Faith revealed in them which saith on this wise Say not in thy heart Who shall ascend into Heaven that is to bring Christ down from above Or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ again from the dead But what saith it the Word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it and this is the Word of Faith which we preach Deut. 30.14 Rom. 10.6 7 8. THE END LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-mill in Martins Le Grand 1660.

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

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