A True ACCOUNT of the BEHAVIOUR, CONFESSION, And Last Dying SPEECHES, Of the Criminals that were Executed at TYBURN, On Friday the 24th of this Instant May. 1695 .

ON the Lords-day, being Whitsunday, the Ordinary preacht to the Condemned, from the 10th verse of the Fift Chapter of the first Epistle of St. John, in these words, He who Believes hath the Witness in Himself. It was the great design of Christs Spirit, in pouring out his Extraordinary Graces on the Apostles, that They might be furnisht with requisite Endowments for the preaching of Redeeming Grace by Christ. I shall explain the maning of this Sacred Priviledge in the Text.

The renewed Conscience bears Testimony to the Divinity of Christ's Person, and the Meritorious Offices of his Redeeming Love; from the Supernatural Effects of that Water and Blood, which issued out of Christ's Heart, and Side, being Justifyed by the One, and Sanctified by the Other; yet, because the water of Purifying-Grace runs low and shallow, being defective at best, we must have recourse for Comfort, to the Testimony of Christ's Bloud-shed, which merited for Us, the Imputation of Perfect Righteousness.

The doctrinal Observation was this, That the very implanting of Faith in the Heart, gives a Right to Eternal Life, because, God hath appointed an inseparable Connexion 'twixt Faith and Salvation. Therefore such, who were never Sensible of the Malignity of Sinning, and never had any Valuation of Christ's infinite Perfections, so, as to make them Vile in their own account, and root the love of sin out of their Hearts, Their Confidence in Christ, is only a fanciful Presumption, which will decieve them, Christ's Righteousness must not only be rely'd on to pacify the disquieting Guilt of Conscience, but the heart must also be resign'd to the conduct of God's Word and Spirit, for Healing the Corruption of defil'd Nature. Genuine Faith extends it self to the purifying of the Heart, by Corroborating all the combined Graces of the Holy Spirit, being virtually all Obedience, as Unbelief is seminally and radically all Sin.

The Inference.

Doth it not nearly and deeply Concern you, to Inquire, whither the Spirit of Christ dwell in you, as having implanted true Faith in your Hearts. The effects of which, are These.

1. Doth your Faith work by Love to Christ, so that He Commands all your renewed Faculties, in universal, constant, and cheerful Obedience to his Sacred Laws.

2. Doth your Faith draw a Veil over all Creature-Excellencies; so that, you admire Nothing but Christ Crucified?

3. Doth your Love to Christ out bid all Temptations of worldly profit, and sinful pleasure? Do you prefer any single Precept or promise of God, before the Confluance of all earthly Enjoyments?

4. True Faith gathers Growth and Courage by Persecution for Righteousness sake; It can do and suffer all things, unless this, that any Lust should reign and rest uncontrouled in the Soul. These are the Effects of a Genuine Faith, to which, the Spirit of Christ sets his Testimonial Seal, for the Comforting of a Believer in all distresses. This is a superadded act of Grace or Favor, in causing him to have the joyful Perception of Christ's redeeming Love, as Sanctifying his Nature, before defiled with the Reign of Lusts, This being well considerd; It is contradictory to the stated terms of Salvation, to believe that God appointed Christ to dye for any man in particular, till he rightly imbrace Him, on the Conditions of the Gospel Covenant. After he hath done thus, he may persuade himself truly and rationally, that Christ dyed for him in particular, that his Sins are pardoned, and himself is accepted to Eternal Life, that he be not So absolutely assured of this, as to be filled with sensible Joys, unspeakable and full of Glory.

The Conclusion was thus directed to the Condemned.

Is Eternal Salvation only annext to true Faith, as an evident Testimony of it? How doth this Condemn the pride of mens hearts, that no Command of God is so much opposed, as this precept of Believing in Christ for Righteousness; because it nullifies all Conceit of Worthiness in the Creature.

Yet, you have Encouraged your selves in the Excesses of sinning, as perverting Christ's Death, to become the Patronage of your Lusts.

How remote are you from any Well-grounded Hopes of Salvation by Christ, when all the Witnesses in Heaven and Earth, may justly Accuse, Testify against and Condemn you, to Eternal Torments? God the Farther, is a consuming Fire without an Interest in Christ, and the Avenger of every Transgression against his Sacred Laws. How should he have any pitty for such, who have slighted all his gracious and earnest Expostulations, that they would not destroy themselves, but turn to him and Live.

2. The Blood of Christ Crucified a fresh, shall not be the Expiation of their guilt, but shall plead for Vengance against them; It shall justly aggravate there Condemnation, because they despised the value of it to purchass them, and the sanctifying virtue of it, to Seal them to Eternal Life.

3. The Spirit of God, the Comforter, shall not pitty them under the depth of there Eternal Miseries, because they have offred despight to his gracious Sollicitations for there Conversion. Oh Sad! That ever Gospel, which they would not admit to be the Rule of there Obedience, shall sink them deeper into Hell.

4. The Water of Baptism, which gave them the Title of Christians, shall Testifie against them, because, they denyed Christ in their Works, and thereby, tore off the Seal of their Baptism, making void to themselves all the saving Benefits thereof.

Such must needs carry many Hells within themselves, when all the Witnesses in Heaven and Earth shall Condemn them, because they have directly despised and opposed the only Remedy to recover them from a state of sinning and Eternal Misery.

The Sting of their Condemnation is sharpned, because they have drawn it wilfully upon themselves. Besides, it is mixt with the wrath of God, which is inflicted without the least Pitty or Intermission; because they have persisted, in despising the offers of Mercy, and a Pardon on God's equitable Conditions.

Be persuaded to break off your Iniquities by a timely and sincere Repentance; by an hearty Acceptation of Christ, in Obedience to his Sacred Laws. Thus shall you be Redeemed from the wrath of God. Thus shall you obtain well-grounded Hopes of future Happiness; when you have this Witness in your selves that you are Conformed to the power of Christ's Death and Resurrection. Be Abased in your selves, that so Free Grace may Exalt you, to the lively Hopes of heavenly Felicity: Thus may you outface the grim aspect of Death, and Triumph over the bitterest Agonies of it, in the insuperable