These Particulars I first briefly discours'd upon, and then spoke more largely to the Points following, viz.

After I had gone thro' every one of these Points, I did (in my particular Application to the Persons Condemn'd) endeavour to inforce on them this important Work of Repentance; which (with other practical Duties of Religion) I laid open before them in my daily Discourses to them, in publick and in private.

And on the last Lord's Day, the 19th instant , I preach'd to them again, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon Numb. 35. 31. Moreover, ye shall take no Satisfaction for the Life of a Murderer, which is guilty of Death: But he shall be surely put to Death.

From which Words I shew'd;

I. The heinous Nature of the Crime of Murder, which of all other Injuries committed against the Person of our Neighbour, is the greatest; because it is the Destroying (as much as in Man lies) the Image of God Himself, and taking that away which can never be restor'd.

II. The severe Punishment of it, which in this World is irremissible, because the Injury is irreparable.

III. and lastly, How much that Person, who is so unhappy as to be guilty of such an horrid Crime, (thus unpardonable by Men) ought to be concerned in doing whatever he can, effectually to repent according to the height and heinousness of such his Crime, that he ay obtain Pardon in the other World, tho' he ought not to expect it in this.

Having discours'd at large upon these Heads, I concluded here (as I did before) with suitable Exhortations and Application to all the Persons there, and particularly those under Sentence of Death; shewing them from Scripture, That a Man, who hates his Neighbour, and does offer any Injury or Violence to him, which may be the unhappy occasion of Blood-shed, is guilty of Murder before GOD, tho' Human Laws may let him escape the Punishment he really deserves. And upon this Account I endeavour'd to make them all sensible, and truly repent of their Sins, in the Commission of which they did put themselves into the Danger either of killing or being kill'd.

What Effect these, and the like Instructions and Admonitions that were given them, had upon their Hearts, I shall leave the Reader to judge from the Accounts they respectively gave me of themselves, which are as follow.

1. Richard Field< no role > , condemn'd for the Murder by him committed upon the Person of Mary the< no role > Wife of Gabriel Randal< no role > , a Tobacco-Pipe-maker at Uxbridge in Middlesex , and stealing out of their House, Gold, Silver, and other Goods, to a great Value, on the 20th day of October last . He said, he was 27 Years of Age, born at Conyhatch in the County of Middlesex : That at first he went to School there, and afterwards to other good Schools in Towns thereabouts, viz. Finchly , Totteridge , and East-Barnet ; and, That a good and pious Gentlewoman taking care of his Education, and defraying the Charge of it, he was well and virtuously brought up; but did not answer the End of that his Education; That when he was about 12 Years old, he would (and so did) go to New-England ; and there being come, he was bound Apprentice to One Michael Harding, a Tobacco-Pipe-maker at Boston : That when he had serv'd out his seven years Apprentiship, he work'd 3 Years more (as a Journeyman ) with his Master, who being a sober and godly Man, and