THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND CONFESSION Of the Criminals, Condemned on Saturday the 22th. of May, 1686 . at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly , viz. Edward Hide< no role > , Alice Millikin< no role > This name instance is in set 1245. , David Millikin< no role > , John Hellier< no role > , William Dondle< no role > , Jonathan Bridgeman< no role > Pascha Rose< no role > , Edward Smith< no role > , Thomas Baxter< no role > , Richard Thomas< no role > , James Cordiner< no role > , Nicholas Hanghton< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , John Mancliff< no role > , Mary Lush< no role > This name instance is in set 1244. , Ellenor Rogers< no role > , Of which, Edward Smith< no role > , Pascha Rose< no role > , Jonathan Bridgeman< no role > , William Dondle< no role > , and Edward Hide< no role > , were in the Dead Warrant, to be Executed at TYBURN , On Friday the 28th of May 1686 . The other Criminals are Reprieved.

IT is very deplorable to consider, that although the Lord bring every Session his Judgment to Light, against secure Sinners, yet the unjust know no shame. To convince the Condemned Criminals of so great presumption, the Ordinary visited them on Saturday after receiving their Sentence: He put them in mind how they ought to reflect upon their former flagitious Courses, which had provoked the Lord to leave them most justly to these Crimes, which had drawn upon them the Snares of Death. After he had prayed, and used Arguments to excite them to Repentance; he put them in mind, how they might prepare themselves for the Solemn Dutys of the approaching Sabbath, and so dismist them.

On the Lords Day in the Forenoon, he Preached upon these Words of our Saviour, in the 21st. Chap. of St. Luck, the 36. Verse, Watch ye, and pray always, that you may be counted worthy to escape these things, and to stand before the Son of Man.

This Advice, properly and immediately relates to the destructive miseries of Jerusalem, which were a Prologue and Pledge of the last universal Judgment; and therefore, they are connected in the 24th. and 25th. Chapters of St. Matthew?s Gospel.

Our Saviour Rouzes up the secure Jews to Watching and Praying, that so they might escape the Miseries impending and hovering over them. Would we not be surprised by Death and Judgment, as a Snare; we must actually exercise Holy Principles, and Dispositions in Watching and Praying: Not that this can confer any personal worthiness to escape Divine Wrath, only they yield a becoming fitness, or suitable frame of Heart, with which, Christ is so well pleased, as freely to bestow the Reward of Blessedness.

Every one may certainly conclude what his future State shall be, without perplexing his mind with the Secret Records of Gods Election or Reprobation, as these are Coppyed out, in the lively Graces of Christs Spirit, or the Prince of Darkness sway him, in an indulgent adhearing to his Lusts and the Vanities of this World.

Here the Ordinary set forth the Characters of such sinners, who can least expect to stand Acquitted at Christs Tribunal; also, what sins we must especially Watch and Pray against, which are so deep Dyed in their Malignity and Defilement, that they expose persons to greater difficult