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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90710	A loving invitation (to repentance, and amendment of life) unto all the inhabitants of the island Barbados Before the Lords sore judgements come upon them, which is seen to be nigh, and which they cannot escape, except fruits meet for repentance, and amendment of life be brought forth. With somthing more particularly to the heads, and owners, of the several plantations. By a friend to the whole creation, called Richard Pinder.	Pinder, Richard, d. 1695.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2263; ESTC R232175	8,167	20

of the severall Plantations am I moved to write and to lay some things before you to be considered of in the fear of the Lord. You many of you hath many under you as Slaves and Bond-Men Therefore consider your Places and be not high minded but fear provoke not your Servants through cruell usage for that the Lord hates they are of the same Blood and Mould you are of and you must give an account of your actions unto the Lord as well as they with him there is no respect of persons for his Judgment is True and Just and the Sentence which proceedeth out of his Mouth is right according to that of God in all Consciences so listen and take a word of advice now while the Day and Time is that you may learn Wisdom and make your Peace with God But know first that before you can come into peace with God you must let his witness search your hearts and truly it will find much in the hearts of many of you which is to be condemned and denyed before you can come into peace with God for he is pure and hates the Garment spotted with the flesh and he turns his mighty hand against all Iniquity where his pure witness finds it And oh ye Heads of the severall Plantations of this Island You are generally a lofty and high Minded People given to the Lusts and Pleasures of this present Evill World that many of you are become without sense or feeling of any thing of God that the God of this world hath so far prevailed that your eyes are become eves wholly blind that truly the darkness even the thick darkness which lies over you may easily be felt by any whose hearts God hath opened unto himself and into this great and thick darkness and benummed State you have run your selves by giving way and following your ungodly lusts which is conceived in your Earthly Minds which run forth in Covetousness after the earth which many of you have chosen to be your God and so have denyed the living God who gives you life and being and all creatures that consider you whose hearts are thus bowed down to the Earth and Earthly things your State and Condition is miserable for the God of Heaven and Earth will require an account of you for all his Creatures which he hath given you which you spend in satisfying your Lusts and able to stand before him you will not be and your mouths will be stopped by his Witness in your Consciences which now in this the Day wherein the long suffering of God is upon you you reject and do despite unto And thus you reject the day of your Visitation And verily it is nigh at an end with many of you that the day of destruction hastens greatly and it shall overtake every one that is proud and lifted up Therefore consider while time is for it is precious And truly it will be your burden one day that you have spent so much precious time in rioting feasting and drunkenness through which you destroy Gods Creatures when as alas many of your Servants both white People and Negroes are like to perish and be destroyed for want of the Creatures and thus you burden the Creation by being Subject unto your own Lusts For consider if the Wisdom of God did lead you it would bring you to use his Creatures to his Glory and then it would be your care Oh ye Heads and Owners of the severall Plantations that none of your Servants or Slaves did perish or suffer for want of the Creatures and also it would be your care if the Wisdom of God you lived in which is the Wisdom of the Creation that none of your Servants nor any under you should abuse themselves and the Creatures of God through drunkenness And then if these things be your care God would blesse you but so long as you are bad examples your selves unto your Servants you strengthen them in their wicked deboist wayes and thus you become guilty before the Lord both of their and your own wickedness then let amendment of life be brought forth that youmay become good examples to all under you in patience in moderation and sobriety in your Words and Actions and that will be the way whereby you may escape Gods sore Judgments and be freed from his wrath to come For you being good examples both in word and behaviour this will answer the witness of God in all you are over and this will reach more deeply into their hearts and constrain more obedience then all your cruell usage in whipping them For consider if you whip them for drunkenness and such like things and you your selves be guilty of the same this greatly hardens their hearts against you and provokes them to curse you behind your backs And thus you cause the Name of God to be blasphemed through your disorderly walking and being bad examples unto them whom in the Wisdom of God you should rule over and keep subject unto you as I said being bad examples your selves this looses your Authority which otherwise you might have if you were kept in the Fear and Wisdom of God your selves For that would keep you humble before Lord that though you had much of the earth yet you would not be exalted nor lifted up in your selves which indeed Oh ye Heads of the severall Plantations is your greatest sin For in that which is so exalted and lifted up by having much of the earth is all iniquity wrought and all deceiveableness of unrighteousness thus the earth is made a curse unto you as it is unto all whose minds are not redeemed out of it And none comes to know and have their minds redeemed out of the earth but they that come to know him revealed in them who is from heaven to wit the Son of of God the second Adam who redeems and leads out of the first Adams State who is of the earth earthly And so all whose mindes are in the earthly things they are in the unredeemed State drove into the earth from God where he ruleth that filleth the earth with spoile and violence the old Serpent the Devill and Satan by whose power all are subjected that knows not something of God in them to keep their minds out of the earth For all naturally in the fall and transgression are inclined unto the earth and its Riches and Glory and so it keeps them from seeking after the Riches and Glory which is Eternall And truly this is the State of many who have much of the earth as you have the Inhabitants of this Island and truly the hearts of many of you are greatly corrupted through the abuse of it and your consciences greatly burdened through cheating and cousening one another about it that your wickedness is grown to an exceeding great height yea as I said it is become even as a Mountain before the Lord that long you cannot stand except repentance be sought and amendment of life be