you have denied your name to be False-Peace, yet you see that these
honest men have sworn that that is your name. As to your plea, in
that you are quite besides the matter of your 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 for that you did wickedly
and satanically bring, keep, and hold the town of Mansoul, both
under its apostasy from, and in its rebellion against its King, in
a false, lying, and damnable peace, contrary 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 name, etc.; 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 peace that is not a
companion of truth and holiness, but that which 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, has not delivered thee from what by the 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 matter 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. My lord, this man hath of 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