A True Account of the BEHAVIOUR, CONFESSIONS, AND Last Dying Speeches Of the Criminals that were Executed at TYBURN, On Wednesday the Second of March, 1691/1692.

THE Ordinary visited the Condemned Criminals every Day till their Execution. On the Lord's Day in the Forenoon the Text was 1 Cor. 11. 31. If we would judge our selves, we should not be judged or condemned by the Lord.

On the Lord's Day in the Afternoon was preached a Sermon on this Text, Eph. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee Light. The Conclusion of which Discourse was thus directed to the Condemned.

Awake, awake ye Sons of sinful Slumber, awake to Righteousness, and sin not any longer; awake and hear what concerns your Everlasting Peace before the Grave and Hell shut their Mouths upon you, and you shall hear no more to your Saving Advantage. What, will you dare to sleep on in Impenitence, though in Danger of its proving a Sleep unto Death Eternal? Will you dare to sleep secure with Hell-Flames about your Ears? impenitently take your Rest, in a State every moment lyable to Damnation.

O the insensibleness of a Customary habitual Sinner! that Misery and Destruction should be in his Evil Ways, and yet the Way of Peace he should not desire to know! That Affliction, extream Affliction and Distress, God's lowdest Calls to Repentance should not awaken him! No Sleep sure so dead a one, as persevering Impenitence! But alas, alas Man, what avails it thee to sleep on? thou art never the more safe, because secure; that Sleep is thy dangerous Disease, which thou accountest thy Happiness: The Sleep of Sin is the Lethargy of thy Soul, the dead Doze of it to the Life of Grace and Vertue; such a Stupor of Spirit as exposes thee to a going away in thy Sleep into Everlasting Torments: And wilt thou continue in such a perilous Condition, and not use the means of thy Recovery, serious Reflection, Repentance and new Obedience? Alas, better awake now to Conviction and Conversion, though a Painful and Troublesome Undertaking, than to awake and lift up thy Eyes with Dives in Hell-Flames, and there endlessly lament thy not considering and looking about the sooner.

As yet Sinner there is Hopes for thee, as yet there is Help for thee in a Saviour; a Capacity of thy escaping the Terrors of the Lord, and of thy getting into a safe, delightsome State of Salvation: Do but begin to Awaken to a Penitent Conviction; do but begin to arise to Newness of Life, by the Aid of Divine Grace, and thou shalt find God will Bless such thy good Beginnings, will convince and illuminate thee more and more to see thy past Errors and Miscarriages; will add fresh Supplies to thy renewd Inclinations, and Holy Purposes of Amendment; will make thee proceed from Strength to Strength in the Advances of Grace, till he has compleated thy Reformation, and fitted thee for Eternal Glory.

Consider, I pray, what Gracious Offers are made you in my Text, and then refuse 'em if you can; doth there the Holy Spirit of God cry Awake, and arise from the Death of Sin, and Christ will give thee Light, larger Measures thereof, and hast thou the Folly to remain in a State of sinful Darkness, practising the evil Deeds thereof? O none so Blind, as those who will not see; none so Ignorant, as those who will not be convinc'd of their wicked Doings! Shall God profer you his Grace in vain, if it be yet in vain? O let it not be so! Is Christ willing to receive you, and are you unwilling to return unto him? O turn ye, turn ye, why will ye Dye Impenient Sinners?

It Grieves me, it Grieves me, to see you so little Affected, so greatly insensible of your impenitent dangerous Condition; to see you dead in Sins and Trespasses, and yet unwilling to arise to Newness of Life: Ah who is more an Object of Pity, than he who is in a miserable Condition, and yet is inapprehensive thereof, and pities not himself in order to his getting out of it? And who is more to be condol'd, than the hardned secure Sinner, whose very Sleep is deadly, and his Rest pernicious?

Go then immediately and fall down upon your Knees in Prayer; beg, beg earnestly of God and Christ, who only can do it, to give you the Grace of Repentance; To raise yo from the Death of Sin, unto the Life of Righteousness; to melt your obdurate Hearts, to make complyant your stubborn Wills, to spiritualize your corrupt sensual Affections. O 'tis but a little while and those who now see you, shall see you no more; take heed therefore that when you cease being seen of Men, you may see and be seen of God to your endless Felicity: This will never become your Lot, unless you carry hence holy Bodies, holy Souls, holy Tempers and Dispositions of Mind; for Heaven is a Place wherein no unclean thing can enter; Heaven is a City wherein only dwelleth Righteousness. Ah then as you look for Mansions among the Saints in Light and Glory, live Saint-like God-like Lives, your short remaining Season. Begin to live that Spiritual, Divine, Heavenly Life now, which you desire and hope to Live for ever; and continue not one Moment in that impenitent unconverted Condition, in which you would not Dye, and go to Judgment.

I proceed to give an Account of their Behaviour in Prison, and their former Course of Life.

1. Lancelot Snowden< no role > , Condemned for the Murther of one Richard Lowther< no role > . He was lately a Press Master , and had been imployed in Sea Affairs from thirteen Years of Age: He said, That he had not led a strict Life, for which he was very penitent, but especially for his late killing of the said Lowther, though in a Scuffle, he being among some Coopers, who came to rescue one Thomas King< no role > , whom he had newly press'd. This Inconsiderate Passionate Action, he said, much troubles him, and he is resolved, if he continue in such Employ