A True Account of the Behaviour, Confessions, and last Dying Speeches of the Condemned Criminals, that were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 22th, of this Instant June 1698 .

On the Lords-Day, after the Condemnation of the Condemned Criminals, a Sermon was Preached on this Text,

I. John 3. 26. For if our heart condemn us, God to greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

THese Words demonstrate what is the Misery of a guilty defiled Conscience, not cleansed by the Blood of Christ from the condemning Verdict thereof, as not sanctified by Christ's Spirit. It for a time be silent, in not accusing for Sin, but it never, have any Ground of solid true Peace and Comfort, unless it be purified from the Pollution of Sinning, wilfully contracted. The falsly acquitting Conscience shall be convinced that it hath God, who is its Enemy, for its righteous Judge. And being conscious of its Guiltiness, it is very seldom quiet because God Omniscient hath a far quicker Sigh than any into his own Heart and Ways as judging them with Strictness, yet in Rightsness. The very Light and Dictates of the natural Conscience, if attended unto by the reflex acts of the Understanding, will commn all unchaste, Desires all Contrivances of Injustice and Acts of Hypocrise in God's Service. Natural carnal Men strive to put Conscience (God's Spy and Deputy-Judge) out of in Office; that it altogether silent, or a slight Sense of Sinning: yet there is no bribing of the Conscience altogether, because God is great or in Authority and Power omnipresent and omniscient to know the very Thoughts of the Heart. Even in this Life, the Conscience is and armed with Christ's Authority, that it make to within himself, and But in the last universal: Judgment Conscience shall make Sinners at their Wits end, to wish for the Mountains to fall on them and to cover them from the Wrath of the incensed Lamb of God. Christ's abused shall then turn to the Furiousness of his extremest Justice, to wrath unavoidable and intolerable.

Now there are these Reasons why God hath given the Conscience the Power of Accusing or Excusing, of Acquitting or Condemning.

I. That every Man any have something within himself to comfort terrifie him, when all things without fll to do this, that God's Proceedings with Men, may by themselves be confest to be just. Every Man's own Conscience is a proper fit Witness for or against him; because it keeps continually a Register within himself: Yea, this book of the Conscience is in every Man's own keeping, and therefore cannot be interlin'd or falsified. Christ in the last Judgment, will to lively and powerfully join with every Man's Conscience, as set before the Sinner the breath of every Law of God or Men with the smallest Circumstances. The very Word of God, set home by the Authority of his Spirit, makes the most obstinate Sinner to fall flat, on his Face, and to acknowledge that God was in such a Truth, which discovered the very Thoughts of his Heart. Thus the Word of Christ is his Attorney General to draw up an Impeachment against the Sinner, yet Christ i the only Judge himself. And he is constituted such, by his Father a Constitution, in our very human Nature. For God the Father, would not be judge in his own Cause; but Christ as God, Man partakes of the Nature both of God and Man. And thus his Interest to Right Indifferently and impartially betwixt God and Man. Let not Sinners grow presumptuous hereupon, That Christ as judge in their own Nature will, be more indulgent in his Sentence. He will be the more severe with such who despising the Dignity of Human Nature pervert the right the of their Reason, to Licentiousness in Sinning. Christ Book of Omnisciency in the Day of Judgment, and that of the Conscience being opened together, will most exactly agree: Therefore all things shall very speedily be cleared up, without troubling Juries or any other Witnesses. This could not be a Work speedily done, if God had not given this Power to Conscience to reflect and give Testimony, yea, to be more authentic than thousand Witnesses besides; thus all Debasings and will be needless.

The inference is this, Seeing that we have a troth in our own Bosoms wherever we o and whatever do, who will make Report thereof to Christ the Judge of Heaven and Earth. Let us over our Words and Deeds, as those who desire to have the considerable Testimony of Conscience, for our Acquirement at the great Day of Account. Let us not suspend, ch less the Mouth of Conscience accusing and impleading Th is crying Wickedness, to stab the Judge of all the World he sits on the Bench speaking Law and Justice a very unnatural desperate and Devilish Wickedness is incurable, because it very means of Conversion to God, which is the sinful State.

I shall now lay before you some Rules or to get and preserve a good Conscience.

Do not presume, that tho you delay dying Hour, that God will save you by an gative on Mercy, contrary to his Holy Nature his Sacred Word.

2. Observe and preserve the natural and of the Conscience, before sophistical or corrupted them, as speaking false about the least Circumstance of your Duty neglected, amounts in God's Account to Sin committed by the sudden Surprize of Do not slight the least Sin as if it would not Damnation, hoping that it is pardonable Grace shall attain endeavouring after the highest Measures of Holiness as Happiness it self. Argue not your good and happy, from the common Works of Christianity but inrr the Hopes of your Salvation from the Inhabitation of Christ's sanctifying Spirit you.

the rather insist on this Remark of a good because S. Peter , That the Answer or such a Conscience as purified by the Merits of Christ's blood shed and raised from the death of Sin, to the life of Righteousness, is the only effect Baptism to rely upon for On that the Spirit of Sanctification may descend this day upon you to baptize you with Fire, Love to the Ways of Holiness! He is the Spirit of Bing to cons the Droness of our rrunt Nature that we may be an every good Work. This is manner to the Festival of we evidence that the Spirit of Christ hath was'd away Pollution of our Sins by the that we are cloathed with all Heavenly Graces. may it and before the Throne of god, to as his Favorites; We need not search the Records God's Decrees as to our eternal State; into our selves, and narrowly search , the Heart is, and the constant in this World. I you can appeal to God's that you love That you have not shaped World according to the Politick Wisdom, you have walk'd is under the Eye of God's being fearful of offending him, and ly careful to please him. ves for the minut Irregularities and of your Lives: Then the Lord judge of come your Advocate, over of justice. True who judge shall have shall be admitted wh the Mansions of Eternal Glory.