Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

17th October 1684

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9th October 1684


THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE Condemned Criminals IN NEWGATE, VIZ; Thomas Benson< no role > This name instance is in set 12403218. , Anne Parker< no role > , and Jane Arnock< no role > , As Also The Dying Speeches of John Wise< no role > , for Robbing and Murdering of Elizabeth Fairbanck< no role > , who was Executed at PICKADILLY , and James Shaw< no role > , who was Executed.

AT TYBURN. On Friday the 17th. of the October, 1684 .

WHereas at the late Sessions of Gaol-Delivery, held in the Old-Bayly, on Wendesday, and Thursday, the 8th . and 9th. Days of October , Instant Five Persons received Sentence of Death, viz. Thomas Benson< no role > This name instance is in set 3218. , James Shaw< no role > , John Wise< no role > , Anne Parker< no role > , and Jane Arnock< no role > ,

The Ordinary on Friday visited the the said Condemned Malesactors, who being then placed about the Table in the Chappel of Newgate as is usual, for the space of two hours at least, he endeavoured to make them sensible of their several Crimes, opening the horrid nature of them. Then he instructed them in the Creation of mankind in an Holy and Hapy State, shewing how all men being made upright in the first Adam, as a publick trustee, or common parent and Representative of them, Apostatized from God virtually in him, deriving a sinful nature from Adam by propagation and that most justly, for the breach of the Covenant of perfect obedience due from all Men to God their Creator. And demonstrated from many undeniable arguments, that had all Men been Created together with Adam, they could not but have expresly consented to the equitable and advantagious termes of that first Covenant. Which being willfully broken, exposed all Adam natural Posterity to a state of Sin, to all the miseries of this Life, and the wrath of God for ever.

Then the Ordinary opened the Covenant of Grace and Redemtion by Christ the Second Adam as a Federal Head and Trustee, for all his Spiritual Seed and Allies, who are restored to the Image of God and Communion with him, even to a better and surer State in Divien savor, than could have been obtained by perseverance in obedience to the first Covenant.

In opening the mysterie of Redemtion by Christs perfect Active and Pas




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