. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. onfirmed in their way andsufferings, by what he told them would happen to them. They also nowcomforted each other, that whose lot it was to suffer, even he should havethe best of it; therefore each man secretly wished he might have that pre-ferment. But, committing themselves to the all-wise disposal of Him thatruleth all things, with much content they abode in the condition in whichthey were, until they should be otherwise disposed of Then a convenient time being appointed, they brought them forth totheir trial, in order to th
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. onfirmed in their way andsufferings, by what he told them would happen to them. They also nowcomforted each other, that whose lot it was to suffer, even he should havethe best of it; therefore each man secretly wished he might have that pre-ferment. But, committing themselves to the all-wise disposal of Him thatruleth all things, with much content they abode in the condition in whichthey were, until they should be otherwise disposed of Then a convenient time being appointed, they brought them forth totheir trial, in order to their condemnation. When the time was come, theywere brought before their enemies, and arraigned. The judges name wasLord Hate-good: their indictment was one and the same in substance,though somewhat varying in form; the contents whereof were this: Thatthey were enemies to and disturbers of their trade; that they had madecommotions and divisions in the town, and had won a party to their ownmost dangerous opinions, in contempt of the law of their prince. THE PICKTHANK. The Witnesses. THE TRIAL. 109 Then Faithful began to answer, that he had only set himself against thatwhich had set itself against Him that is higher than the highest. And,said he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace;the parties that were won to us, were won by beholding our truth andinnocence, and they are only turned from the worse to the better. And, asto the king you talk of, since he is Beelzebub, the enemy of our Lord, Idefy him and all his angels. Then proclamation was made, that they that had aught to say for theirlord the king against the prisoner at the bar should forthwith appear andgive in their evidence. So there came-in three witnesses; to wit, Envy,Superstition, and Pickthank. They were then asked if they knew theprisoner at the bar, and what they had to say for their lord the king againsthim. Then stood forth Envy, and said to this effect: My lord, I have knownthis ma
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