ment, by cutting his own Throat; since he could prove it to be no Crime. These false Notions were so rooted in his Mind, that the Day after his Condemnation, he strenously argued, that the Soul and the Life was one and the same thing, quoting the Beginning of Genesis, where (said he) 'tis recorded, God breathed into Man a Living Soul; therefore (continu'd he) when that Breath of God prishes from us the Living Soul we find dies and perishes too; &c. He proceeded afterwards to say, dy thus you would have me believe all the strange Notions of Ministers, That the Devil is a real Thing; That our kind God punishes poor Souls for ever and ever; That Hell is full of Fire &c. I wish I could believe ye 'tis so with me that I cannot. &c.

As his nature appear'd so obdurate, and so relentless with Regard to himself and his best Wife, it was remarkable, that he should have such a Concern and Tenderness for his Second Wife and his Child, as to shed Tears (which he did the Tuesday before he dy'd) at the Consideration of their being left without a Sufficiency to support them. In the Afternoon he also shed Tears, when he observ'd that the News of his Condemnation would reach the Years of his Father (Ninety Years old) and of his other Friends in Holland and France. He said, after this, That tho', as to himself, he was as willing to Dye as Live; yet it cut his Heart to think he should be hang'd between Heaven and the Earth, as unworthy of either, and his Body be pointed at and shewn to his Wife and Child; and they reflected upon for Murder.

But this Tenderness, as it made no part of his Nature, soon disappear'd, and the next Day, when a French Minister charitably went to visit him, and told him he must confess his Offence or expect to be damn'd; he reply'd in a Rage, You must look for Damntion to your self, for uncharitably supposing I am guilty, without knowing any thing of the matter. And being by me desir'd not to think of this Life, but to place his Thoughts upon Eternity altho' he promis'd he would regard chiefly his Soul, he afterwards made it his principal Business to enquire, Who was to be apply'd to for a Reprieve, since the Appeal had cut him off from his Majesty's Cognizance. &c.

At the Chappel the Day preceeding his Death, he appear'd to be attentive; but 'tis to be doubted whether it was occasion'd by a real Regard to Futurity; Because after the Sermon, when I talked with him, all his Efforts were turn'd toward casting an Odium upon certain Persons who had mention'd to him the Blackness and Heinousness of his Crime, and had urg'd him to confess it for the satisfaction of all; frequently smiling and laughing and asserting his Innocence. &c. As he desir'd me to go to him, that same Evening: I hoped to find him different from what he continu'd. For he appeared much discompos'd at a French Minister's bidding him Confess his Crime. It was our Design to carry on our Argument against his Heterodox Notions; but he had much alter'd his Sentiments, or pretended to have done so; for altho' in the Morning he argued that the Soul would sleep with the Body, &c. i Night, he refus'd all Argument; and when asked, said he believed God and a Resurrection; and afterwards added thus, Pray say nothing more of my Guilt, if ye will only pray with me I will joyn with ye as long as ye please.