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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.

Praying also for they see that you do them all but for your own ends since you have set your selves against the Truth as you three Priests of Bermuda have done who were like a wild Bull in a Net witness your fretting and chafing in your Praying and Preaching when you could not get the Magistrates of that place to satisfie your envious minds to banish us off that Island who came to visit the remnant of Jacobs Seed that it might be gathered from off the tops of the barren Mountains where it long had been scattered into the Fold of Rest and at the fulfilling of this your rage like mad-men appeared The Priests say That they find to their great comfort that the Doctrine of holy Scriptures received by Faith hath power to purge their hearts from the Corruption of Sin and they say it 's often declared by them that they own no other Light of Christ making to see sin to their salvation but this Doctrine contained in the holy Scripture and planted into their hearts by his holy Spirit through hearing and reading of them Answ By this it appeareth that you are them that preach up another Faith than that which was preached to Abraham before the Scriptures were written Gal. 3.8 when Abraham saw the coming of the Just Ones and rejoyced Ioh. 8.58 And the Prophet saith He should sit as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver Mal. 3.3 And Iohn saith He shall throughly purge his floor Luke 3.17 And the Scriptures cannot contain him for he is ascended for above all heavens that he might fill all things Ephes 4.10 This is He the Scripture declares of who was the Author and Finisher of the Saints Faith in whom they believed and had remission of sins and received Life Everlasting according as the Scriptures say And the Spirit of Truth which led them into all Truth was the Saints Comforter and this led them to the fulfilling of what before was written And so they stumbled not at Christ the chief corner-stone as they did that cryed up the Prophets VVritings but were erred from the Spirit by which the Prophets were led and this is your condition who set your selves to scandalize and reproach the LIGHT which Christ hath enlightned every one withal and yet are crying up the Doctrine contained in the Scripture and say it hath power to purge your hearts from the corruption of sin when as alas you believe no such thing as people can be purged wholly from sin in this life And note that so long as sin remaineth it corrupts and so your deceit is seen who tell of being purged from corruption and not from the sin which doth corrupt And Praises be unto the Lord many are come into the Faith by which Abel offered a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain Heb. 11.4 25. of whose stock all envious men are And the Faith of Abraham is witnessed by which he obeyed the voice of God before the Scriptures were written and faith which Moses was in is witnessed by which he denyed the pleasure of sin which you three Priests are yet found in and though you cry up the Doctrine contained in the Scriptures yet your deceit is seen and your Ignorance discovered who say You know no Light of Christ making to see sin to your salvation but the Doctrine contained in the Scriptures which before I shewed what it was taking a Verse of Scripture and Divining an hour by a Glass from it But all such Doctrine they that spoke forth the Scripture denied and preached Christ the Light and Lamb of God which had been slain from the foundation of the World and preached remission of sins through him who is the Power of God and the Righteousness of God who hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World that through him all might believe And this Light the Saints witnessed to shine in their hearts to give them the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God And so this Light they preached which in all at first shined in Darkness and reproves for the sin that is brough forth by the Power of Darkness 2 Cor. 6.4 The Priests say That we to wit the Quakers take the Light of Christ for the knowledge of Christ as the Son of God and Saviour of the World Answer He that is the onely begotten Son of God and Saviour of the World hath enlightned every one that cometh into the VVorld and this is he that giveth the knowledge of the Father and this is life eternal to know the Father and him whom he hath sent a Light into the VVorld Joh. 12.36 that they who believed in him should not abide in Darkness Now the Light which cometh from the onely begotten of the Father First sheweth unto people their own darkness to the end that with the Light they may be led out of it that where the Light is believed in and obeyed it manifesteth life which life Redeemeth and Reconcileth unto God as it is known And this is the true and saving knowledge of Christ which we the Quakers bear testimony unto for by his Life the Saints were saved and this Life none know Rom. 5.10 but who come and wait in the Light for the revealing of it that they are the Children which abide in the Darkness who do not believe in the Light which Christ hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World withall and can never come to the knowledge which saveth but are condemned already Iohn 3.18 The Priests say To reason from every one having so much light as leaveth them without excuse therefore they have a Light of Christ or saving Light they say its all alike as if one should prove every sick man hath knowledge to recover himself because he knoweth he is sick Answer Here would you not make it as though people were left without excuse by some other light than the Light of Christ Oye blind Leaders of the blind who are thus fallen into the Pit of darkness Doth not Christ who is the Light and saveth them that believe in him condemn the Unbelievers And would you have him to judge and condemn them for their sin and transgression and that he never enlightned them to let them see what sin and transgression was Oh how you erre in the things of God and in the judgement which is Eternal which is committed unto the Son who hath enlightned every man that cometh into the World And you that are telling of a Light by which people are left without excuse Iohn 9.22 and not from Christ you are they that are setting up another Judge than he and so would pervert the Truth and true judgment which was ever the work of him that is the father of Lyes who did not abide in the Truth whose waies the true Light now discovereth that though you who are filled with his subtilty go about never so many waies to pervert the Truth and true Judgement yet you are discovered in them

meanings whom you call Orthodox men which you call Preaching of the VVord that I say you may read your selves and also your Hearers by your Comparison who compare that Light which is infused into people by instruction which you count your work to water that is put into a VVell Now consider Will not water that is put into a Well that hath no Spring in it soon decay and waste away But Praises be unto the Lord who among his that have believed in the Light which enlightneth every one that cometh into the VVorld hath opened the Well-spring of Light and Life and such see your ignorance and laugh at your folly who are speaking of Light being in people two waies you are the men of Darkness whose eyes the god of the World hath blinded lest you should see the Light of the glorious Gospel 2 Cor. 4.4 The Priests say That there is a light within some men discovering their corruptions what it is and where it is by Infusion or Instruction by the VVord of God contained in the Scripture That they say they grant Answer What will the Light which cometh by Instruction which you your selves compare to water put into a VVell which will soon waste and decay will it discover corruption where it is and what it is And will not the Light which is in people which is as water that springeth in a VVell will not this discover corruption and where it is By this you are seen to be they which would set up your selves For we know well enough what it is you call the Word of God contained in the Scriptures 1 Kings 8.17 But the Word of God is Christ which the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain So in this you have shewed forth your ignorance The Priests say in Answer to another Querie which was Whether the Light by which the Children of Light walked was within them or some Light without them To this they say The light whereby the Children of Light walked was within them rooted and grafted in their hearts but it was infused into them by the Doctrine contained in the holy Scriptures Answ The LIGHT which the Children of Light which we read of in Scripture walked in and in which they had fellowship with God and one with another and in which they knew the blood of Jesus which cleansed from all sin God was the Author of this Light John 1.5 and not the Scripture For the Scripture doth but declare of the Light Neither doth the Scriptures say as you do in any place that Light by them is infused into people but saith Christ the Light by which every one is enlightened And several there were which walked in the Light with God before the Scriptures were written as Enoch who was translated from death to life Gen. 5.22 and Abraham knew the voice of God before the Scriptures were written Heb. 11.5 And why do you tell so often of Light being infused into people by the Doctrine contained in the Scriptures and do not also tell what you mean by that Doctrine Now if this be your meaning as I believe it is your taking a Verse of the Scriptures and raise from it so many Doctrines and then lay down so many Tryals and then so many Arguments and then so many Motives and Uses and Applications if this be the Doctrine you so much speak-of as I say again I believe it is through which you say Light must be infused into people Now consider you do all this for money and people give you money for doing of it as you three Priests witness your Forty pound Salary and two shares of Land a year yet nevertheless though you do all this for money the gift of God cannot be bought and sold for money Act. 8.20 And they that walked in the LIGHT which is the gift of God they witnessed a cleansing from the sin through it which you who tell of Light being infused into people by such Doctrine as before mentioned plead against that in short we plainly see the more people adhere unto you the further into darkness they are led and the further they are from owning the gift of God in themselves which should lead them unto Life Eternal and from the teaching of all Deceivers Rom. 6.13 The Priests say The Children of Light came to a right understanding of the Scriptures through the Light that shined in the Scriptures themselves and not by any Light that was in them before they were acquainted with the Scriptures As a man in the dark discerneth a Candle by the light which shineth from the Candle and not by any light he had before Answ That which must bring people to receive a right understanding of the Scriptures is the Spirit which leads to the fulfilling of them for many there were that had the Scriptures and could talk of them and yet were in darknesse and could not see into the mystery the Scripture spoke of in that they were enemies to the Spirit by which they were spoken forth and so stumbled at CHRIST 1 Cor. 1.23 Rom. 9.32 the True Light Him of whom the Scriptures did declare But Simeon who was a Just man and waited for the Consolation of Israel it was revealed unto him by the holy Ghost that he should not see death until he had seen the Lords Christ Luk. 2.26 Now he did not say that the Scriptures did reveal this unto him but the holy Ghost For there were many at that time who did expect the Messias to come as Simeon did yet though they had the Scriptures yet could not know him who was the Gentiles Light and Israels Glory Luk. 2.32 And now you three Priests consider your comparison Whether a man by the light of a Candle only discerneth the light of a Candle as you say or he discerneth the Candle and its light by his eye which is the light of the body which he had before for a man that hath not the light of the eye he can neither see the Candle nor its light That you have erred both in the main matter and in your comparison and by your own comparison may be judged to be men Deut. 16.19 whose eye gifts and rewards hath blinded Exod. 13 8. to wit such yearly gifts as your forty pound Salary and two shares of Land The Priests say in their Answer to another Query That they do not promise to bring any light of their own to the Scriptures as they say our words in our Queries would make but they say they only do open the words and seek out the true sence contained in them by an Allegory of Faith Answ We know whatever you profess or promise that you can bring no light to the Scriptures and for your finding out the true sence of them that also we know you can never do so long as you are not guided by the same Spirit as they were that spoke them forth though you have them in several Languages as Latine Greek and Hebrew