A True ACCOUNT of the BEHAVIOUR, CONFESSION, AND Last Dying SPEECHES Of the Criminals that were Executed at TYBURN, On Wednesday the 26th, of July, 1693 .

The Ordinay visited the Condemned every day till their Execution.

ON the Lord's Day he preacht twice on this Text, viz. Jer. 17. Ver. 9, 10. The Heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, Who can know it? I the Lord search the Heart, I try the Reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the Fruits of his Doings.

He cannot make publick in this short Paper, the many discoveries of the Heart's Deceitfulness, nor the Remedies to prevent them, which were largely treated of in two Semons; Therefore he will only mention the conclusion, directed to the Condemned.

You have in many instances seen the dissection of the Heart's Deceitfulness. Let not the spiritual Lethagy of Security, cause you to trust any longer in your self-delusions, til you be confirmed in the Love of Wickedness. Have you not lov'd Iniquity when no Temptation of Pleasure of Profit hath presented it self unto you, but rather the apprehension of intolerable and eternal Torments. How have you by your wicked Counsel and Example, been ambitious to popogate Sin, as if you design'd to make Damnation as universal a Portion, as possibly you could; you thought that by accumulating of wickedness, you could secure your selves above the reach, and beyond the stroke of Divine Justice. Would you cure this desperate Madness? Represent to your selves the Terrors of the universal Judgment; when the counsels of the Heart shall be made manifest; when those secret Impurities, and studied Frauds, whereof the World did not suspect, you shall be exposed and laid open to publick View. Humbly therefore supplicate the Lord to undeceive you as to the cherishing any false Hopes of heavenly Felicity. Pray thus, O thou Omuiscient Judge, search and try me; for, I dare not trust my own Heart in its Verdict of my future State. O do thou determine the Determination of my Conscience, that it may judge aright of the just Proportions of Virtue, and of the colourable Dissimulations, and Coverts of Vice. Rely not on any passport to Heaven, which an Hypocrite may forge, and thereby aggravate his Condemnation the more terribly, because unsuspectedly. Rectify all Mistakes in time, before it be too late. Are your Heaven-born Souls such petty Things, that you trifle by carelesness in not guarding them? That by self-confidence, you think there ss no need of committing them to God's gracious Guidance and Patonage?

Without this the mischiefs of Security will seize and betray you to every charming Lust, or violent Passion which will rend you from the peaceable Enjoyment of your selves. Is the Heart deceitful? Trust it not. Be not indulgent to its mistakes; but zealous to discover them, by the rule of Righteousness. Mortify the principles of all Sin in the Love of them; as being sensible that these have betrayed you to the gossest degrees of Impiety. Study the natural Vileness and Treachery of your Hearts, more strictly and severely: Then you will discover and defeat the malignity of that Sin which reigns in you without suspicion. Never be confident in exalting a civil Conversation equal with Renewing-Grace. This will not withstand and overcome the fiercest shock of Temptation, when the other will as a rotten Foundation; yea, will make the Hypocrites fall, the, greater and more pernicious. Let such consider, that the Lord is infinitely furnished with perfect knowledge, that he may be able to stop the Mouth of all Self-Justiciaries out of his owu Observation. Let no Sinner presume to put the Lord to the proof of his Charge against him. Let no man adventure to sin in secret because the Omniscient sees thorow the most hidde Recesses of the Heart. He wil strangely bring to light, and as irresistably punish all the workers of Iniquity, and their works of Darkness. If we cannot avoid the presence and sentence of our own Conscience, how much less that of the infinite All-Knowing Judge of Heaven and Earth? What Wickedness soever is projected, and yet suffers an Abortion not for want of Will, but of Power and Opportunity, to accomplish it, shall be as righteousness pnisht, as good works heartily intended, or done in secret, shall be rewarded openly: Yet, how strangely fond are most men to undo themselves by too slight and partial an Inquest, into the Enormities of their Lives and Hearts. Whosoever studies to preserve his own Integrity, and Peace in Conscience; or to conciliate God's favourable Acquitment of his sinning must resolve to strip himself of all fig Leaf Excuses and Extenuation of the irregularities of his Conversation. The Omniscient ponders, considers, and weighs the Spirits of Men, yea, the Paths of the most just, exactly to a Grain.

How confoundedly then will Sinners look, who neglected all Heart-searching-work, who dispised all Reproofs, which should have rectified their Mistakes, and have made them happy, even against their Wills. How will the Hypocrites painting dop off before the fiery Trial of God's Omnisciency. The Shame of his Wickedness shall be laid open to Saints and Angels, tho he wrap up himself in his studied Collusions with a pleasing Flattery, to his just remediless Confusion.

Let us therefore ambitiously strive to be upright in the Confession of our Sins, and the Profession of Christ's pure Religion. Soul Errors are most dangerous, because they are hard to be discoveed, yet a timely Conviction may be applied. It is far from the Reputation of Modesty to seek the hiding of any Sin. It is rather the Character of impudent Atheism, which will soon arrive to the stature of the most desperate Wickedness. To prevent this, be persuaded to suspect, and search your Hearts with the exactest strictness. Remain no longer Enemies to God by indulging your Lusts, or; in being Strangers to your selves. Then you will be alienated from the Life of God, in an holy, heavenly Frame, you will be overcome with the least breath of Satan's Temprations. Commune with our own hearts and be still; that is, silent to hear out what Conscience will charge you with, and do not stide its Convictions. Converse no longer with worldly Vanities, nor follow the Atifices of Sinners, who court you to your own Destruction. Commit the custody of your Souls to God's sure Guidance so will he be your Guardian, to epel and tread all the Powers of Hell and Darkness under your Feet. Pray that no Iniquity may have no longer dominion over you: So the Lord will conduct you to the Regions of heavenly Light and Felicity. Herein being fixt, you shall not waver in your pious Resolutions, nor wander any more from the Paths of Righteousness, but shall be confirmed in a perfect State of Holiness to Eternity.