any of the town of Mansoul afraid of destruction, I often used by some way, device, invention or other, to labour to bring them to peace again.* Wherefore, since I have been always the man of so virtuous a temper, as some say a peace-maker is, if a peace-maker be so deserving a man, as some have been bold to attest he is; then let me, Gentlemen, be accounted by you, who have a great name, for justice and equity in Mansoul, for a man that deserveth not this inhuman way of treatment, but liberty, and also a licence to seek damage of those that have been mine accusers.

Then said the clerk, Crier, make proclamation. Crier. O yes! Forasmuch as the prisoner at the bar hath denied his name to be that which is mentioned in the indictment; the court requireth, that if 'there be any in this place, who can give information, 'to the court, of the original and right name of the 'prisoner, they would come forth and give in their evidence for the prisoner stands upon his own

'innocence.'

Then came two into the court, and desired that they might have leave to speak what they knew concerning the prisoner at the bar; the name of the one was Searchtruth, and the name of the other Vouch-truth so the court demanded of these men, if they knew the prisoner, and what they could say concerning him? for he stands, said they, upon his own vindication.

Then said Mr. Search-truth, My lord

Court. Hold; give him his oath. Then they swore him so he proceeded.

Search truth. My lord, I know, and have known. this man from a child, and can attest that his name is False-peace. I knew his Father; his name was Mr. Flatterer; and his mother, before she was married,

was

There is no peace to the wicked, Isa. lvii. 21. Till convinced of sin, and Christ becomes the sinner's friend, there can be no mercy, no hope, no heaven. Everlasting perdition must be the end of obsti

nate sinners.

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was called by the name of Mrs. Sooth-up; and these two, when they came together, lived not long without this son; and when he was born, they called his name False-peace. I was his playfellow, only I was somewhat older than he: and when his mother used to call him home from his play, she would say to him, Falsepeace, False-peace, come home quick, or I will fetch you. Yea, I knew him when he sucked; and though I was then but little, yet I can remember, that when his mother used to sit at the door with him, or played with him in her arms, she would call him twenty times together, My little False-peace! my pretty Falsepeace!" and, "O my sweet rogue, False-peace! and again, O my little bird, False-peace! and, How I do love my child! The gossips also know it is thus, though he has had the face to deny it in open court.

Then Mr. Vouch-truth was called upon to speak what he knew of him. So they sware him.

Then said Mr. Vouch-truth, My lord, all that the former witness hath said, is true: his name is Falsepeace, the son of Mr. Flatterer, and Mrs. Sooth-up his mother. And I have in former times seen him angry with those that called him any thing else but False-peace, for he would say that all such mocked and nick-named him; but this was at the time when Mr. False-peace was a great man, and when the Diabolonians were brave men in Mansoul.

Court. Gentlemen, you have heard what these two men have sworn against the prisoner at the bar. And now, Mr. False-peace, to you; You have denied your name to be False-peace; yet you see that these honest men have sworn that this is your name. As to your plea, in that you are quite besides the matter of your indictment,

* The true character of the unregenerate; for the soul can have no true peace while at war with Heaven: there can be no peace but in having the God of peace reconciled to us in Christ Jesus.

The ungodly despise spiritual instruction, love sin, reject the light of the gospel, and dying, unchanged, the wrath of God will abide upon them for ever.

indictment, you are not by it charged for evil doing, because you are a man of peace, or a peace-maker among your neighbours; but that you did wickedly and satanically bring, keep, and hold the town of Mansoul both under its apostacy from, and in its rebellion against its King, in a false, lying, and damnable peace, cortrary to the law of Shaddai, and to the hazard of the destruction of the then miserable town of Mansoul. All that you have pleaded for yourself, is, that you have denied your naine, &c. but here you see, we have witnesses to prove that you are the man.

For the peace that you so much boast of making among your neighbours, know, That the peace that is not a companion of truth and holiness, but is without this foundation, is grounded upon a lie, and is both deceitful and damnable, as also the great Shaddai hath said: thy plea therefore hath not delivered thee from what by thy indictment thou art charged with, but rather it doth fasten all upon thee.

But thou shalt have very fair play let us call the witnesses that are to testify as to matters of fact, and see what they have to say for our Lord the King, against the prisoner at the bar.

Clerk. Mr. Know-all, what say you for our Lord the King, against the prisoner at the bar?

Know-all. My lord, this man hath for a long time made it, to my knowledge, his business to keep the town of Mansoul in a sinful quietness, in the midst of all her lewdness, filthiness, and turmoils; and hath said, and that in my hearing, Come, come, let us fly from all trouble, on what ground soever it comes, and let us be for a quiet and peaceable life, though it wanteth a good foundation.

Clerk. Come, Mr. Hate-lies, what have you to say? Hate-lies. My lord, I have heard him say, that peace, though in a way of unrighteousness, is better than trouble with truth.

Clerk. Where did you hear him say this?

Flate-lies.

Hate lies. I heard him say it in Folly-yard, at the house of one Mr. Simple, next door to the sign of the Self-deceiver. Yea, he hath said this, to my knowledge, twenty times in that place.

Court. We may spare further witness; this evidence is plain and full. See him by, Gaoler, and set Mr. No-truth to the bar. Mr. No-truth, thou art here indicted by the name of No-truth (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul) for that thou hast always, to the dishonour of Shaddai, and the endangering of the utter ruin of the famous town of Mansoul, set thyself to deface and utterly to spoil all the remainders of the law and image of Shaddai, that has been found in Mansoul, after her deep apostacy from her King, to Diabolus, that envious tyrant. What sayest thou? art thou guilty of this indictment, or not?

No-truth. Not guilty, my lord.

Then the witnesses were called; and Mr. Know-all first gave his evidence against him.

Know-all. My lord, this man was at the pulling down of the image of Shaddai; yea, this is he that did it with his own hands. I myself stood by and saw him do it, and he did it at the commandment of Diabolus. Yea, this Mr. No-truth did more than this, he did also set up the horrid images of the beast Diabolus, in the same place.* This is also he that, at the bidding of Diabolus, rent and tore, and caused to be consumed, all that he could of the remainders of the law of the King, even whatever he could lay his hands on in Mansoul.

Clerk. Who saw him do this, besides yourself?

Hate-lies. I did, my lord, and so did many other beside for this was not done by stealth, or in a corner,

but

* They who hate the truth, are still in their sins; strangers to God, his ways and people, and to the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Till darkness be removed by divine grace, sinful man lifts his puny arm of rebellion against Omnipotence !

but in the open view of all; yea, he chose himself to do it publicly, for he delighted in doing it.

Clerk. Mr. No-truth, how could you have the face to plead Not guilty, when you were so manifestly the doer of all this wickedness?

No-truth. Sir, I thought I must say something; and as my name is, so I speak I have been advantaged thereby before now, and did not know but, by speaking No-truth, I might have reaped the same benefit

now.

Clerk. Set him by, Gaoler, and set Mr. Pitiless to the bar. Mr. Pitiless, thou art here indicted by the name of Pitiless (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul) for that thou didst most treacherously and wickedly shut up all bowels of compassion, and wouldest not suffer poor Mansoul to condole her own misery, when she had apostatized from her rightful King;; but didst evade, and at all times turn her mind away from those thoughts that had in them a tendency to lead her to repentance. What sayest thou to this indictment? Guilty, or Not guilty?

Pitiless. Not guilty of Pitilessness: all I did, was, to Chear-up, according to my name; for my name is not Pitiless, but Chear-up; and I could not abide to see Mansoul inclined to melancholy.

Clerk. How do you deny your name, and say it is not Pitiless, but Chear-up? Call for witness: what say you the witness to this plea?

Know-all. My lord, his name is Pitiless; so he hath wrote himself in all papers of concern wherein he had to do. But these Diabolonians love to counterfeit their names: Mr. Covetousness covers himself with the name of Good-Husbandry, or the like: Mr. Pride can, when need is, call himself Mr. Neat, Mr. Handsome, or the like, and so of all the rest of them.

Clerk, Mr. Tell-true, what say you?

Tell-true. His name is Pitiless, my lord: I have known him from a child; and he hath done all that wickedness