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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

all and all your Arguments and Comparisons seen to be of no value For consider your last Comparison Every man that is sick knoweth not the ground of his sickness and distemper but the Light which every man is enlightned withall shewes unto him his sin for which sake the Wrath of God cometh and abideth upon him that all may see your Comparison is made in the blindness of your hearts which is filled with the gross Darkness that you cannot compare Spiritual things with Spiritual 1 Cor. 2.14 neither indeed can you natural men who say people are left without excuse by a natural light discern the things of God for they alone are Spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 The Priests say VVe discover much Ignorance when we desire to know what example they have out of the Scriptures for taking Forty Pounds Sallary and two shares of Land a year for preaching For they say Christ and his Apostles had a compleat Maintenance and their Salaries is no more And again the Priests say They are commanded to take pains and to bestow labour to attain ability to discharge their Callings and so have another reason to require Maintenance than they that were Immediately sent and officiated and furnished by the Spirit of God That they say they do not receive it as Alms or Charity from the peoples free-wil but as their due debt That they say they may not onely receive it when it is given to them but also may with a good conscience Sue for it when it is detained Answ As for Ignorance that is in abundance shewed forth in your selves and it doth betray you in that it leads you to utter forth your folly in pleading so for your own covetous ends but do you think that all people are as full of Ignorance and Blindness as your selves that they cannot see your greediness after the earthly things which under a pretence of preaching the Gospel you would hurd up to your selves Was there ever such a generation of Covetous Teachers as you are who under a pretence of preaching the Gospel would gather to your selves if it were in your power all the substance people should live upon And yet say you receive it not as Almes or Charity from the people Nay you say you may Sue for it with a good conscience But may not all see by this that you are the men whose consciences the hot Iron hath seared Oh what unsavouriness and greediness appears amongst you that have pretended to be Preachers of the Gospel of peace unto the people and now tell them If they detain your Salary and Wages you may go to Law with them for it Oh what Nathaniel VVhite Thou that hast been cryed up for a Pastor of a Congregation so long Will the people of Bermuda bring thee no longer their free-will-Offerings which thou once told them was their duty to do Will they not bring thee Gifts and Rewards as they use to do Must thou now go to Law for thy Maintenance Would it not have been thought a strange thing some years ago to have heard such a word from thee as to say thou mightst with a good conscience sue for Wages for preaching Is not the Proverb fulfilled upon thee art thou not turned with the Dog to the Vomit again and thy two Brethren Burre and Brown Where do any of you read that Esay Jeremy Ezekiel Micah or any of the Prophets or Peter or Paul or any of the Apostles told people that they might lawfully go to Law with them if they would not give them so many shares of Land or so much Salary by the year or so much Sugar Indico or Tobacco which many of your Brethren in this West-Indies preach for and go to Law with their Hearers for when they will not pay them it Yea and with them also which never heard them but witnesses against their deceit and covetousness and witnesses Christ the unchangeable Priest who gives them true knowledge who is the end of the first Priest-hood and the Law also by which Tythes was to be paid and so they who witness him sees you that are now speaking of going to Law with people for Maintenance to be a company of greedy Apostates who like Wolves would devour and go to Law with people when for conscience sake they cannot put into your mouths nor feed you with gifts and rewards as thou Nathaniel White hast been by these in Bermuda whom thou hast gathered into thy own Form to follow after thy own Traditions which thou call'st Church-Order and indeed is the Order of New-Englands Church after the Order of which thou wast made a Pastor and though thou hast not partook with them in shedding the Saints blood yet thy envy hath no less appeared than theirs witness thy praying in the hearing of George Rofe That God would open the Magistrates eyes that they might see how they had given leave to have the people seduced That your taking of pains which you three Priests tell of is through envy For you being not immediately called of God nor furnished by his Spirit as you confess you are not your preaching must needs be by your own Inventions through which you can never beget any to God though you can make them Proselytes and Favorites unto you that they will stand up with you in envy against the Truth and so long as they put into your mouths and feed you with gifts and rewards so long you will cry Peace peace but when not then you will prepare War like your Brethren whom Micah the true Prophet cryed against Mich. 3.5 And whereas you say The Prophets Christ and his Apostles had a sufficient Maintenance and your Salaries are no more I charge you all to shew where one of the true Prophets Christ and his Apostles had Forty Pounds Salary and Two shares of Land a year and so much weight of Tabacco as you have that it is but a perverting the Truth to take their words to plead for your own covetous ends And do you not think that they who fear the Lord on that Island takes notice of your covetousness and of thy unstableness Nathaniel White who once pretended a great zeal for holiness and is now turned to sporting and playing with them who when thou hadst a sincerity in thee was thy enemies but now thou being turned from it they can joyn with thee and thou with them in sporting and gaming but dost thou think that they who fear the Lord are not burthened to see such things And dost thou not think that they see such things not to be of God but of the wicked one Who ever rejected the Truth and its Reproofs as you three Priests have done but the Truth is over you which will encrease your torment And whereas you desire all men to take notice of the malice of your Adversaries for questioning you about your Salaries For you say they are paid not by them whom you preach unto but ariseth you say from the devotion

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-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