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spirit_n	fear_n	lord_n	wisdom_n	5,389	5	6.9425	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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.