THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF

The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that mere Executed at Tyburn, on Saturday the 24th of October, 1713 .

AT the Sessions at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on Wednesday, the 14th; and from that Day, by Adjournment, held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 15th, 16th, and 17th instant, Nine Persons, viz. Four Men, and Five Women, that were Try'd for, Convicted, and brought in Guilty of several Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: But Two of the Women being then found pregnant, and the other Three, with Two Men, having since obtain'd the Mercy of HER MAJESTY's Gracious Reprieve, (which I wish they may be so wise as duly to improve) only Two of the Men are now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them every Day, both in the Morning and Afternoon, brought up to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and read and explain'd the Word of God to them, giving them such Instructions and Admonitions out of it, as I thought most proper (in the sad Circumstances they were under) to comfort their Souls, and dispose them to imploy the few and precious Moments they had now to continue in this Life, to the great Use and Purpose of Eternal Salvation in the Life to come: And to this End,

On the Lord's Day the 18th instant, I preach'd to them, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon, upon part of the Second Lesson for that Morning-Service, viz. St. Luke 4.8. And Jesus said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.

In my Explanation of this Text, I shew'd,

First, That as the Devil had once (and more than once) the impudence to assault our great Lord and Master with his Temptations, so we may well expect (and must provide against) his doing the like to us.

Secondly, That the infallible Way for us both to resist and effectually repel all Temptations, and baffle and utterly disappoint the Tempter, is (in imitation of Christ) to arm our selves in this our spiritual Warfare, against that grand Adversary the Devil, with the Word of God, which (to this purpose) we ought to learn and obey; making it the principal Subject of our Study, and the constant Practice of our Life.