THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed, viz. Richard Keele< no role > This name instance is in set 4698. and William Lowther< no role > This name instance is in set 4699. on Clerkenwell-Green , and the rest at Tyburn, on Wednesday the 23d of December, 1713 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on Wednesday the 9th , Thursday the 10th , Friday the 11th , Saturday the 12th , and Monday the 14th instant , 23 Persons (viz. 17 Men, and 6 Women) being Try'd for, and Convicted of divers Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: Of which number 10 having obtain'd the Mercy of a Reprieve, (which it highly imports them well to improve) 13 of them are now order'd for Execution. And may this be such a Warning to others, as to deterr them from following that wicked Course of Life, the End whereof is Shame, Death, and Misery.

While all these poor Souls lay under this sad 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 read and expounded the Word of GOD to them; which they seem'd devoutly to receive, and give serious Attention to: And,

On the Lord's Day the 13th instant I publickly preach'd to them, and others there present, in the Morning, upon part of the Gospel for the Day, viz. St. Mat. 11. 10. For it is written, Behold, I send my Messenger before thy Face, which shall prepare Thy Way before Thee.

In my Opening of which Words I shew'd, First, Who was that Messenger; and Secondly, What was the End of his Message, viz. the Preaching of Repentance. A Subject seasonable at all times (especially at this) to be insisted upon: Therefore I discours'd my Auditory on this great Point, and herein observ'd these two things chiefly, viz. That there is,

The first of which, (viz. Legal Repentance) I shew'd them, affords no true Comfort to the Sinner's Soul; but the other [Evangelical Repentance] is available to Salvation.

Having unfolded these, and explain'd 'em in general, I then proceeded further to give a particular Account of this Evangelical Repentance, which always is accompanied with Faith, and indeed is the blessed Fruit of it, and may (in short) be thus describ'd:

" Evangelical Saving Repentance is a very heavy and sore Displeasure, which " a Man has and feels in his Heart for his Sins, because they are Breaches of the " Laws of Heaven, and consequently heinous Offences against Almighty God, his " most Loving and merciful Father: And hereupon a wonderful and admirable " Change is wrought in his Mind, Will. Affections, and Actions, which are absolutely turn'd from bad to good, by the power of the Divine Spirit, begetting " in his Soul a perfect Hatred against Sin, and a true Love to GOD, with a sincere " Desire and fix'd Resolution for the future to order and govern his whole Life " and Conversation by the Holy Will of GOD reveal'd in His Sacred Word, making it (to that End) the main Subject of his close Study and constant Practice.

For the obtaining of this great and precious Grace, to which Eternal Life and Salvation are annex'd, I then gave my Congregation some plain Directions. In the Afternoon I preach'd again to them, taking my Text out of the 9th Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Ver. 27, the Words being these; - It is appointed unto Men once to die; but after this the Judgment.