Then the jury, to wit, Mr. Belief, Mr. True-Heart, Mr. Upright, Mr. HateBad, Mr. Love-Good, Mr. See-Truth, Mr. Heavenly-Mind, Mr. Moderate, Mr. Thankful, Mr. Humble, Mr. Good-Work, and Mr. Zeal-for-God, withdrew themselves in order to their work. Now when they were shut up by themselves, they fell to discourse among themselves in order to the drawing up of their verdict.

And thus Mr. Belief (for he was the foreman) began: "Gentlemen," (quoth he,) "for the men, the prisoners at the bar, for my part I believe that they all deserve death." Very right," said Mr. True-Heart; “I am wholly of your opinion." "And so am I," said Mr. Upright. "Oh, what a mercy it is," said Mr. Hate-Bad, "that such villains as these are apprehended!" Ay! ay!" said Mr. Love-Good, "this is one of the joyfullest days that ever I saw in my life." Then said Mr. See-Truth, "I know that if we judge them to death, our verdict shall stand before Shaddai himself." "Nor do I at all question it," said Mr. Heavenly-Mind; he said, moreover, "when all such beasts as these are cast out of Mansoul, what a goodly town will it be then!" Then said Mr. Moderate, “It is not in my manner to pass my judgment with rashness; but for these, their crimes are so notorious, and the witness so palpable, that that man must be wilfully blind who says the prisoners ought not to die." "Blessed be God," said Mr. Thankful," the traitors are safe in custody." "And I join with you in this upon my bare knees," said Mr. Humble. also glad," said Mr. Good-Work. Then said the warm man, and truehearted Mr. Zeal-for-God, "Cut them off: they have been the plague, and sought the destruction of Mansoul."

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Thus, therefore, being all agreed in their verdict, they came instantly into the court.

Clerk. Gentlemen of the jury, answer all to your names. Mr. Belief, one: Mr. True-Heart, two: Mr. Upright, three: Mr. Hate-Bad, four: Mr. Love-Good, five: Mr. See-Truth, six: Mr. Heavenly-Mind, seven: Mr. Moderate, eight: Mr. Thankful, nine: Mr. Humble, ten: Mr. GoodWork, eleven: and Mr. Zeal-for-God, twelve. Good men and true, stand together in your verdict are you all agreed?

Jury. Yes, my lord.

Clerk. Who shall speak for you?

Jury. Our foreman.

Clerk. You, the gentlemen of the jury, being impanneled for our Lord the King, to serve here in a matter of life and death, have heard the trials of each of these men, the prisoners at the bar: what say you? are they guilty of that, and those crimes for which they stand here indicted, or are they not guilty?

Foreman. Guilty, my lord.

Clerk. Look to your prisoners, gaoler.

This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received sentence of death according to law.

The gaoler, therefore, having received such a charge, put them all in the inward prison, to preserve them there till the day of execution, which was to be the next morning.

But now to see how it happened, one of the prisoners, Incredulity by in the interim betwixt the sentence and time of execution, broke

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prison, and made his escape, and got him quite out of the town of Mansoul, and lay lurking in such places and holes as he might, until he should again have opportunity to do the town of Mansoul a mischief for their thus handling of him as they did.

Now when Mr. Trueman, the gaoler, perceived that he had lost his

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prisoner, he was in a heavy taking, because he (that prisoner we speak of) was the very worst of all the gang: wherefore, first he goes and acquaints my Lord Mayor, Mr. Recorder, and my Lord Will-be-will, with the matter, and to get of them an order to make search for him throughout No Incredulity the town of Mansoul. So an order he got, and search was soul. made, but no such man could now be found in all the town of Mansoul. All that could be gathered, was, that he had lurked awhile about the outside of the town, and that here and there one or other had a glimpse of him as he made his escape out of Mansoul; one or two also affirmed that they saw him without the town, going apace quite over the plain. Now when he was quite gone, it was affirmed by one Mr. Did-See, that he ranged all over dry places, till he met with Diabolus Diabolus. his friend; and where should they meet one another but upon Hellgate-hill.

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But oh! what a lamentable story did the old gentleman tell to Diabolus concerning what sad alteration Emanuel had made in Mansoul.

As, first, how Mansoul had, after some delays, received a general pardon at the hands of Emanuel; and that they had invited him into the town, and had given him the castle for his possession. He said, moreover, that they had called his soldiers into the town, coveted who should quarter the most of them; they also entertained him with the timbrel, song, and dance. "But that," said Incredulity, "that is the sorest vexation to me, that he hath pulled down, O father, thy image, and set up his own; pulled down thy officers, and set up his own. Yea, and Will-be-will, that rebel, who, one would have thought, should never have turned from us, is now in as great favour with Emanuel as ever he was with thee. But, besides all this, this Will-be-will has received a special commission from his Master, to search for, to apprehend, and to put to death, all and all manner of Diabolonians that he shall find in Mansoul: yea, and this Will-be-will has committed to prison already eight of my lord's most trusty friends in Mansoul. Nay, further, my lord, (with grief I speak it,) they have been all arraigned, condemned, and I doubt before this executed in Mansoul. I told my lord of eight, and myself was the ninth, who should assuredly have drunk of the same cup, but that through craft I have made mine escape from them."

When Diabolus had heard this lamentable story, he yelled, and snuffed

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up the wind like a dragon, and made the sky look dark with his roaring: he also swore that he would try to be revenged of Mansoul for this. So they concluded to enter into great consultation, how they might get the town of Mansoul again.

Now, before this time, the day was come, in the which the prisoners in Mansoul were to be executed.* So they were brought to the cross, and that by Mansoul, in most solemn manner; for the Prince said, that this should be done by the hand of the town of Mansoul; "that I may see," said he, "the forwardness of my new redeemed Mansoul to keep my word, and to do my commandments; and that I may bless Mansoul in doing this deed. Proof of sincerity pleases me well, let Mansoul therefore first lay their hands upon these Diabolonians to destroy them.”

So the town of Mansoul slew them, according to the word of their Prince: but when the prisoners were brought to the cross to die, you can hardly believe what troublesome work Mansoul had of it to put the Diabolonians

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to death; for the men knowing that they must die, and all of them having implacable enmity in their heart to Mansoul, what did they do but take courage at the cross, and there resist the men of the town of Mansoul? Wherefore the men of Mansoul were forced to cry out for help to the captains and men of war. Now the great Shaddai of more grade. had a secretary in the town, and he was a great lover of the men of Mansoul, and he was at the place of execution also; so he, hearing the men of Mansoul cry out against the strugglings and unruliness of the prisoners, rose up from his place, and came and put his hand upon the hands of the men of Mansoul. So they crucified the Diabolonians that had been a plague, a grief, and an offence to the town of Mansoul.

Rom. viii. 13.

Now, when this good work was done, the Prince came down to see, to visit, to speak comfortably to the men of Mansoul, and to strengthen their hands in such work. And he said to them, that by this work of theirs he had proved them, and found them to be lovers of his person, observers of his laws, and such as had also respect to his honour. He said, moreover, (to show them that they by this should not be losers, nor the town of Mansoul weakened by the loss of them,) that he would make them another captain, and that of one of themselves; and that this captain should be the ruler of a thousand, for the good and benefit of the now flourishing town of Mansoul.

So he called one to him whose name was Waiting, and said to him, "Go quickly up to the castle gate, and inquire there for one Mr. Experience, that waiteth upon that noble captain, the Captain Credence, and bid him come hither to me." So the messenger that waited upon the good Prince Emanuel, went and said as he was commanded. Now the young gentleman was waiting to see the captain train and muster his men in the castle yard. Then said Mr. Waiting to him, "Sir, the Prince would that you should come down to his highness forthwith." So he brought him down to Emanuel, and he came and made obeisance before him. Now the men of the town knew Mr. Experience well, for he was born and bred in Mansoul; they also knew him to be a man of conduct, of valour, and a person prudent in matters; he was also a comely person, well spoken, and very successful in his undertakings.

Wherefore the hearts of the townsmen were transported with joy, when