QUACKER VS PURITANS IN BERMUDA
PINDER, Richard.
The Spirit of error, found, and discovered, in the accounted pastors and teachers of the Island Bermuda, in the West-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 teacher could bring forth. In an answer to some queries that were sent unto them, by us called Quakers. … by a Servant of the Truth.
[London, Robert Wilson, 1660].
Small 4to, pp. 24, caption title, imprint from colophon; some browning and few marks, but a very good copy in modern wrappers; contemporary manuscript pagination to upper outer corners.
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The Spirit of error, found, and discovered, in the accounted pastors and teachers of the Island Bermuda, in the West-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 teacher could bring forth. In an answer to some queries that were sent unto them, by us called Quakers. … by a Servant of the Truth.
First and only edition of this tract by Richard Pinder, a Quaker who, with George Rose, was among the first to take the Society of Friends to Bermuda –and to appear before the Council of Governor William Sayle, charged with disturbing the peace. The most particular object of Pinder’s attacks is the established Puritan leader Nathaniel White, whose doctrine is here thoroughly refuted, and whose hold on the minds and purses of Bermuda’s inhabitants is denounced in a climactic listing of abuses, which includes charges of false religion, corruption, and greed in the imposition of charges on the sales of ‘sugar, indico, or tobacco’.
ESTC R10836; Sabin 62921.
