THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND CONFESSION, Of the Condemned Criminals, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily; on the 8th. Day of April 1687.

Then and there were Eleven Persons Condemned to Dye, viz. Robert Brewer< no role > , John Sawyer< no role > , Robert Parret< no role > , Thomas Arnold< no role > , John Sharland< no role > , William Grant< no role > , Richard Cane< no role > , Elizabeth Clark< no role > , Catharine Jones< no role > , Elizabeth Creed< no role > , and Ann Trahern< no role > , Of which Robert Brewer< no role > , Robert Parret< no role > , Thomas Arnold< no role > , Ann Trahern< no role > e, were Executed at TYBURN . On Wednesday, the 13th. of this Instant April.

Willam Grant< no role > was the same day Executed at Covent Garden . Richard Cane< no role > on Friday the 15th. of this lnstant, at Tower-Hill .

John Sawyer< no role > , at Tyburn . Elizabeth Clarke< no role > , was Burnt at Tyburn for High-Treason.

THE Ordinary visited these Condemned Malesfactors on Saturday. After he had Payed for them, he endeavoured to convince them, how they ought to reflect on their former flagitious Courses, which had provok?d the Lord to leave them most justly in the committing such Crimes, which had drawn upon them the Snares of Death. After he had used Arguments to Excite them to Repentance, he put them in mind how they might prepare themselves for the approaching Sabbath, and so with Prayer dismist them.

On the Lords Day in the Forenoon, the, Ordinary read Prayers, and Preached on that Sacred Scripture in the 2d. Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy, the 2d. Chapter, and the 22d. verse viz. Fly youthful Lusts. from whence he declared, that Sin is a spreading Infection which Traints the purest Blood of Infants, and the briskest Spirits or young Men. Hence it is that this rank among mankind is especially warn'd to fly youthful Lusts; these easily and sensibly, insinuate their pestilential malignity into young Ones Hearts, there they lye strongly Fermenting, till by in consideration and an headstrong Presumption they ent themselves Reason is, because Youth is the unthinking time of Life; what may be the shameful and destructive Issue of them. Youth hath strong and fond aflections to sin, on every weak and foolish missapprehensions of the Sordid Profit, and sensual Pleasure of it. They consider not that the natural Genuine Fruit, aid Recompence of Sin is Death, yet they Confidently pour out the strength of their Affections, in a wicked course, tho' this betray them to Gods Wrath and their own Ruin.

Young Persons Judge not aright of the Painted Insnaring Complexion of Sin; Therefore fly Youthful Lusts betimes, crush them in the Shell before they be Fledg'd, with the inticing advantage of false artificial Imbellishments, otherwise they will prove too strong to be resisted and overcome.

Young men commonly rejoyce in the Daies of their Vanity, to fulfil the desires of their own Hearts. They Indulge an Activity in Sining, they ought rather to look on Sin, in its Nightdress when it is stript of its false Attire, when the Scean of its Finery and vulgar Applause is changed, as ready to shuffle the sinner into a Goal or Grave.

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