in Filth-lane, at the fign of the Reprobate, next door to the Descent into the pit.

Court. Gentlemen, you have heard the indictment, his plea, and the teftimony of the witnesses.

Gaoler, fet Mr. Hard-heart to the bar.

He is fet to the bar.

Hard-heart set

to the bar.

most despe

His indictment.

Clerk. Mr. Hard-heart, thou art here indicted by the name of Hard-heart (an intruder upon the town of Manfoul,) for that thou didst rately and wickedly poffefs the town of Manfoul with impenitency and obdurateness; (a) and didst keep them from remorfe and forrow for their evils all the time of their apoftacy from, and rebellion againft, the bleffed king SHADDAI. What fayeft thou to this indictment? art thou guilty, or not guilty?

Hard-heart. My lord, I never knew what remorse or forrow meant, in all my life: I'am impenetrable, I care for no man; nor can I be pierced with men's grief, their groans will not enter into my heart; whomfoever I mifchief, whomfoever I wrong, to me it is mufic, when to others mourning.

Court. You fee the man is a right Diabolonian, and has convicted himself. Set him by, Gaoler, and fet Mr. Falfe-peace to the bar.

Falfe-peace fet to the bar.

His indictment.

Mr. Falfe-peace, thou art here indicted by the name of Falfe-peace (an intruder upon the town of Manfoul), for that thou didst most wickedly and fatanically bring, hold, and keep the town of Manfoul, both in her apoftacy,and in her hellish rebellion, in a falfe, groundless, and dangerous peace, and damnable fecurity, (b) to the difhonour of the King, the tranfgreffion of his law, and the great damage of the town of Manful. What fayeft thou art thou guilty of this indictment, or not?

(a) See the woful end of fuch, in Rom. ii. 5.

Then

He denies his

name.

Then faid Mr. Falfe-peace, Gentlemen, and you now appointed to be my judges, I acknowledge that my name is Mr. Peace; but that my name is Falfe-peace, I utterly deny. If your honours fhould please to fend for any that intimately know me, or for the midwife that laid my mother of me, or for the goffips that were at my chriftening, they will any or all of them prove, that my name is not Falfe-peace, but Peace, Wherefore I cannot plead to this indictment, forafmuch as my name is not inferted therein; and as is my true name, fo alfo are my conditions. that loved to live at quiet; and what I loved myself, that I was always a man I thought others might love alfo. Wherefore when I fav that any of my neighbours laboured under a difquieted mind, I endeavoured to help them what I could; and I could give many inftances of this good temper of mine: As,

Falfe-peace juftifies his con

duct,

1. When at the beginning our town of Manfoul declined the ways of SHADDAI,' fome of them afterwards began to have disquieting reflections on themselves for what they had done: but I, as one troubled to fee them difquieted, presently fought out means to get them quiet again.

2. When the ways of the old world, and of Sodom, were in fathion; if any thing happened to moleft those that were for the customs of the prefent times, I laboured to make them quiet again, and to cause them to act without moleftation.

3. To come nearer home: When the wars broke out between SHADDAI and Diabolus, if at any time I faw any of the town of Manfoul afraid of destruction, I often ufed, by fome way, device, invention or other, to labour to bring them to peace again. (a) Wherefore, fince I

have

(a) There is no peace to the wicked, Ifa. lvii. 21. convinced of fin, and Chrift becomes the finner's friend, no mercy, no hope, no heaver,

Till

have been always the man of fo virtuous a temper, as fome fay a peace-maker is, and if a peace-maker be fo deferving a man, as fome have been bold to atteft he is; then let me, Gentlemen, be accounted by you, who have a great name for juftice and equity in Manfoul, for a man that deferveth not this inhuman way of treatment, but liberty, and also a licence to feek damage of those that have been my accufers.

Then faid the clerk, Crier, make proclamation.

Crier. O yes! Forafmuch as the prifoner Proclamation t at the bar hath denied his name to be that for the witnesses 'which is mentioned in the indictment; the to come forth. 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 prifoner, they would come forth and give in their evidence: for the prifoner stands upon his own innocence.'

Then came two into the court, and defired that they might have leave to speak what they knew concerning the prifoner at the bar; the name of the one was Search-truth, and the name of the other Vouch-truth: fo the court demanded of these men, if they knew the prifoner, and what they could fay concerning him for he stands, said they, upon his own vindication.

Then faid Mr. Search-truth, My lord

Court. Hold; give him his oath. Then they fwore him: fo he proceeded.

The evidence given by Mr.

Search-truth.

Search-truth. My lord, I know, and have known this man from a child, and can atteft that his name is Falle-peace. (a) I knew his father; his name was Mr. Flatterer; and his mother, before fhe was married, was called by the name of Mrs. Sooth-up:

(a) The characteristic of all the unregenerate; for the foul 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 Chrift Jefus, the Prince of peace.

Sooth-up: and these two, when they came together, lived not long without this fon; and when he was born, they called his name Falfe-peace. I was his playfellow, only I was fomewhat older than he; and when his mother used to call him home from his play, fhe would fay to him, Falfe-peace, Falfe-peace, come home quick, or I will fetch you. Yea, I knew him when he fucked; and though I was then but little, yet I can remember, that when his mother used to fit at the door with him, or played with him in her arms, fhe would call him twenty times together, My little Falfe-peace! my pretty Falfe-peace!' and, O my fweet rogue, Falfe-peace!' and again, O my little bird, Falfe-peace!' and, How do I love my child ! The goffips alfo 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 fware him.

Mr. Vouch

'Then faid Mr. Vouch-truth, My lord, all truth's evidence that the former witnefs hath faid, is true: against Falfehis name is Falfe-peace, the fon of Mr. Flatpeace. terer, and Mrs. Sooth-up his mother. And I have in former times feen him angry (a) with those that called him any thing elfe but Falfe-peace, for he would say that all fuch mocked and nicknamed him; but this was at the time when Mr. Falfe-peace was a great man, and when the Diabolonians were the brave men in Mansoul.

Court. Gentlemen, you have heard what these two men have fworn against the prifoner at the bar. And now, Mr. Falfe-peace, to you: You have denied your name to be Falfe-peace; yet you see that these honeft men have fworn that this is your name. As to your plea, in that you are quite befides the matter of your indictment, you

are

(a) The ungodly hate inftruction, love fin, reject the light of the gofpel, and, dying unchanged, the wrath of God will abide upon them for ever!

vered.

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 fatanically The true chabring, keep, and hold the town of Manfoul racter of Falfeboth under it's apoftacy from, and in it's re- peace difcobellion against it's King, in a falfe, lying, and damnable peace, contrary to the law of SHADDAI, and to the hazard of the deftruction of the then miferable town of Manfoul. All that you have pleaded for yourself, is, that you have denied your name, &c. but here you fee, we have witnesses to prove that you are the man.

For the peace that you fo 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 lye, and is both deceitful and damnable, as alfo the great SHADDAI hath faid: thy plea therefore hath not delivered thee from what by thy indictment thou art charged with, but rather it doth faften all upon thee.

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

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

Mr. Know-áll's evidence.

Know-all. My lord, this man hath for a long time. made it, to my knowledge, his business to keep the town of Manfoul in a finful quietnefs, in the midst of all her lewdnefs, filthinefs, and turmoils; and hath faid, and that in my hearing, Come, come, let us fly from all trouble, on what ground foever it comes, and let us be for a quiet and peaceable life, though it wanteth a good foundation.

Clerk.

(a) He that committeth fin (wilfully) and from a love to it, is of the devil, and knows not God: fee 1 John iii. 8.