in a hubbub about them; and that for feveral reafons : for, first, The pilgrims were clothed with fuch kind of raiment as was diverfe from the raiment of any who traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair, made a great gazing upon them: fome faid they were fools; fome they were bedlams; and fome, they were outlandish men. Secondly, As they wondered at their apparel, fo they did likewise at their speech; for few could underftand what they faid; they fpake the language of Canaan, but they who kept the fair were the men of this world; fo that, from one end of the fair to the other, they seemed barbarians to each other. Thirdly, But that which did not a little amuse the merchandifers was, that these pilgrims fet very light by all their wares; they cared not fo much as to look upon them; and if they called to them to buy, they would put their fingers in their ears, and cry, Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and would look upwards, fignifying, that their trade and traffic was in heaven.

One chanced mockingly, beholding the carriages

b Our Lord told his difciples, that the reason why the world hated them was, because he had chosen them out of the world;

therefore," fays he, "the world hates you :" and in another place he says, "the world cannot hate you, but me it hateth." It is the teftimony of Jefus, and the confeffion of his name, which gives the offence; it is not a formal profeffion of religion that will give offence; but "if any man will live godly in Chrift Jefus, he muft fuffer perfecution:" 'tis not merely living godly, but living godly in Chrift Jefus.

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of the men, to fay unto them, What will ye buy? But they, looking gravely upon him, said, We buy the truth. At this there was an occafion taken to despise the men the more; fome mocking, fome taunting, fome speaking reproachfully, and fome calling upon others to smite them. At last things came to an hubbub, and there was a great ftir in the fair, infomuch that all order was confounded. Now word was presently brought to the great one of the fair, who quickly came down and deputed some of his most trusty friends to take those men and examine them, about whom the fair was almost overturned. So the men were brought to examination; and they who fat upon them, asked them, Whence they came? whither they went? and what they did there in fuch an unusual garb? The men told them, That they were pilgrims and ftrangers in the world; that they were going to their own country, which was the heavenly Jerufalem; that they had given no occafion to the men of the town, nor yet to the merchandifers, thus to abuse them, and to stop them in their journey; except it was for this, that when one asked them what they would buy, they faid, they would buy the truth. But they who were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else fuch as came to put all things into confufion in the fair. Therefore they took them and beat them, and besmeared them with dirt, and then put them into the cage, that they might be made a spectacle to all

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the men of the fair. There they lay for fome time, and were made the objects of any man's fport, or malice, or revenge; the great one of the fair laughing ftill at all that befel them: but, the men being patient, not rendering railing for railing, but contrariwife bleffing, and giving good words for bad, and kindness for injuries done; fome men in the fair, who were more obferving and lefs prejudiced than the reft, began to check and blame the baser fort for their continual abufes done by them to the men: they therefore, in an angry manner retorted upon them, counting them as bad as the men in the cage, and telling them that they seemed confederates, and fhould be made partakers of their misfortunes. The others replied, that, for aught they could fee, the men were quiet and fober, and intended no body any harm and, that there were many who traded in their fair who were more worthy to be put into the cage, yea, and the pillory too, than the men whom they had abufed. Thus, after divers words had paffed on both fides (the men behaving themfelves all the while very wifely and foberly before them), they fell to blows among themselves, and did harm one to another. Then these two poor men were brought before their examiners again, and there charged as being guilty of the hubbub that had been in the fair. So they beat them pitifully, and hanged irons upon them, and led them in chains up and down the fair, for an example and terror to others, left any should speak in their behalf, or join themselves

themselves unto them. But Chriftian and Faithful behaved themselves yet more wifely, and received the ignominy and shame which was caft upon them with so much meekness and patience, that it won to their fide (though but few in comparison of the rest) several of the men in the fair. This put the other party into a greater rage yet, infomuch that they concluded the death of these two men. Wherefore they threatened, that neither cage nor irons fhould ferve their turn, but that they fhould die for the abuse they had done, and for deluding the men of the fair. Then they were again remanded to the cage, until further order should be taken with them. So they put them in, and made their feet faft in the stocks.

Here therefore they called to mind what they had heard from their faithful friend Evangelift, and were the more confirmed in their ways and fufferings, by what he told them would happen to them. They alfo now comforted each other, that whofoever's lot it should be to fuffer, he would have the best of it; each man therefore fecretly wifhed that he might have that preferment: but, committing themselves to the all-wife difpofal of him who ruleth all things, with much content they abode in the condition they were in, until they should be otherwise disposed of.

Then a convenient time was appointed for them to be brought forth to their trial, in order to their condemnation. When the time was come, they were brought before their enemies, and arraigned.

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The judge's name was Lord Hate Good: both their indictments was one and the fame in fubftance, though fomewhat varying in form; the contents whereof was this: "That they were enemies to, " and disturbers of, their trade: that they had made " commotions and divifions in the town, and had "won a party to their own moft dangerous opi❝nions, in contempt of the law of their prince."

Then Faithful began to answer, That he had only fet himself against that which had set itself against Him who is higher than the highest. And, faid he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace: the parties who were won to us, were won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are only turned from the worse to better. And as to the king you talk of, fince he is Beelzebub, the enemy of our lord, I defy him and all his angels.

Then proclamation was made, That they who had aught to fay for their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar fhould forthwith appear, and give in their evidence. So there came in three witneffes, to wit, Envy, Superftition, and Pickthank these were asked, if they knew the prisoner at the bar; and what they had to fay for their lord the king against him.

Then stood forth Envy, and faid to this effect: My lord, I have known this man a long time, and will atteft upon my oath before this honourable bench, that he is

Judge. Hold-Give him his oath.

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