THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 13th Day of March, 1712/1713 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 25th , 26th , and 27th Days of February 1712/1713, Five Persons, viz. three Men, and two Women, being Try'd for, and Convicted of Murder, and other Capital Crimes, receiv'd Sentence of Death accordingly: But Three of them having afterwards obtain'd a Gracious Reprieve, (which I wish they may take Care to improve, as they ought to do, to the Glory of GOD) Two only are now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them (twice every Day) brought up to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of GOD; drawing those Practical Inferences that naturally arose from it, and were most applicable to them, and proper for their Instruction and Encouragement to return to GOD by Faith and Repentance, whom they had so greatly offended by their wicked Lives and enormous Crimes.

On the Lord's Day, the First instant , I preach'd to them, and others there present, who were many (too many) both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon this Text, Gen. 9 6. Whoso sheddeth Man's Blood, by Man shall his Blood be shed; for in the Image of GOD made He Man.

In my Explanation of which Words I shew'd,

I. The Penalty which (by the Law of GOD) is inflicted upon the Murderer, for whom no Intercession nor Ransom ought to be accepted to save his Life, or procure him a Pardon, but he must be surely put to Death; as GOD expresly enjoyns in his Holy Word, and particularly in Num. 35. 30, 31. and here in the Text, where He says, Whoso sheddeth Man's Blood, by Man (i. e. by the Magistrate appointed to do Justice) shall his Blood be shed: Which is the former Clause. But,

II. Besides the Penalty specified here, GOD is pleas'd to give the Reason for it in the latter Clause of the Text, which is this: For in the Image of GOD made He Man. From whence it clearly appears, that whosoever kills any Person willingly does commit an Injury, not only against that Person whom he kills, but against GOD himself, whose Image he thus presumptuously contemns, and does deface.

Having enlarg'd upon these two Heads, and shewn what sort of Killing (in the Account of the Scripture) is Murder, and what is not; and how they should stir up themselves to the highest degree of Repentance, who have ar