and lastly, That all this is most certain and evident from this positive Expression in the Text, Know thou. For here we may observe, Solomon does not say, Thou may'st think, or thou may'st suppose, or believe; but KNOW: Know thou, that for all these things [i. e. for thy Evil Thoughts, thy wicked Words, and thy sinful Actions] God will bring thee into Judgment.

After I had discours'd largely upon these Heads, I concluded with a particular Application and suitable Exhortation to the Condemned; whom I endeavour'd to persuade to Repentance.

In my private Discourses with them, I collected the following Accounts.

William Johnson< no role > , alias Holloway< no role > , condemn'd for the Murther of Mr. Richard Spurling< no role > , whom he shot to Death, even at the time he was in the Discharge of his Office at the Old-Baily , and the Court then sitting there, on Wednesday in the Evening, the 10th instant . He, the said Holloway, deny'd his being guilty of that Murther; saying, " That he had no Pistol in his Hand, " for ought he knows, and tho' he had, it was far from his intent to have killed " the said Mr. Spurling. Upon this I told him, That suppose he had no Design particularly upon Mr. Spurling's Life; yet he could not disown his having Malice in his Heart, so as to do some mischief, if not to him, yet to some body else. To which he answer'd, "His coming then to the Old-Baily , was " to see Mrs. Jane Housden< no role > , and other Friends that were at that " time in that Place, and to drink with them. But when I told him that to make me and the World believe any thing of what he said herein was true, I desired to know of him the Reason he had to come thither with those two Pocket-Pistols loaded with Slugs that were found upon him. Here he was at a stand for a while; and then said, " He ever carry'd those Pistols about him " since he did (some Weeks ago) break out of Newgate , where he was only detain'd for his Fees. Which Fees he telling me he had pay'd after his Escape, and was free to go about his Business, without any danger of being apprehended, I observ'd to him, " That all this could not consist with itself, nor consequently with Truth; For if he apprehended himself in no danger, why did " he carry about him Pistols ready charged, which indeed must be for his Defence and Security, when he thought himself unsafe; or it must imply, as " I said before, a malicious Design in him to do somebody Mischief, as he did? To this he reply'd, that he intended no such Thing: And this is all he could, or would say.

This William Holloway< no role > (who as I am informed) is to be hang'd in Chains at Holloway , between London and Highgate , had been a very great Offender before, and was Condemned in July 1711 for stealing a Light Bay Gelding that belong'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Pierpoint, on the 4th of June in the said Year 1711 . When under Condemnation, he confess'd his Guilt of that Fact, and gave me this further Account of himself, viz. That he was then 33 Years of Age, born at Grafton in Northamptonshire , That he had follow'd divers Callings; being sometimes a Butcher in Newport-Market , sometimes a Grasier in the Country, at another time a Printer of Callico's , and afterwards kept a Cornchandler's Shop in Long-acre , and then remov'd to Southwark , where he kept a Victualling-House in the Parish of Christ-Church ; That he had also practised Surgery , both there, and at Sea, where he was in