THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF

The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 25th of September, 1713 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 9th , 10th , 11th , and 12th instant, Eleven Persons, viz. Seven Men, and Four Women, being found Guilty of several Capital Crimes, did receive Sentence of Death accordingly: But one of the Women being found pregnant, and another Woman and Two of the Men having obtain'd HER MAJESTY'S Gracious Reprieve, are now respited from Execution, and Seven are order'd for it.

When they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them brought up twice every Day to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and gave them such Instructions from the Word of God (which I then read and expounded to them) as I judg'd proper for the bringing of them to a Sense of their Sins, the Reformation of their Lives, and a due Preparation for a Christian Death here, and a Happy Life hereafter.

On the Lord's Day the 13th instant , I preach'd to them, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon, upon Psal. 39. 12. the Words being these, Hear my Prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my Cry; hold not thy Peace at my Tears. For I am a Stranger with Thee, and a Sojourner, as all my Fathers were.

Which Words (with their Context) having first explain'd in general, I then proceeded to discourse in particular upon these three Propositions, resulting from them, viz.

I. That all the Sons and Daughters of Men are but Strangers and Pilgrims upon Earth, travelling towards their Long Home; as David professes for himself, and for all before him, in these Words of the Text: I am a Stranger with thee, and a Sojourner, as all my Fathers were.

II. That from thence it follows, That as this Life is short and transient, our Abode in this World but temporal, and of no long duration, so we should set our Affections not on things on Earth, but on things that are above; raising our Thoughts and our Desires to that blessed Life which is to come, eternal in the Heavens; as the Apostle excellently exhorts, 2 Cor. 5. 1. and Col. 3. 2.