THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 29th of January, 1713/1714 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on Friday the 15th , Saturday the 16th , Monday the 18th , and Tuesday the 19th instant , Nine Men that were convicted of several Capital Crimes, receiv'd Sentence of Death accordingly. Of these 2 being Repriev'd, 7 are now order'd for Execution: which I wish may prove an effectual Warning to other Offenders.

On the Lord's Day the 17th instant I preach'd to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon, being a Continuation of my Sermons preach'd the Sunday before, and the Text taken out of the Epistle appointed for that Day, viz. Rom. 12. 1. I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that ye present your Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable to God, which is your Reasonable Service.

Which Words having first explain'd in general, I then proceeded to consider in particular,

I. The Force of the Preface, couch'd in these words, I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God; the very Name, Brethren, being a Term most pathetick and most winning, and the Mercies of God, most proper to perswade; forasmuch as they are so excellent, that if the Angels themselves were to preach to us, and invite us to the Belief of the Gospel, and the Practice of the Holy Precepts therein, they could not (in their Perswasives) fly higher than those transcendent Mercies.

II. The Meaning and Import of this Exhortation of the Apostle, That Men should present their Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable to God.

III. and lastly, The strong Motive or Argument by him urg'd herein, viz. That this is a Reasonable (or Rational) Service.

On these Heads I enlarg'd; shewing both the great Duty here requir'd of us Christians, and the blessed Reward attending the faithful Performance of it; our Defects wherein should therefore be carefully made up by Faith, Repentance, and Amendment of Life, which are Graces we ought earnestly to pray for, if ever we desire, or can expect, to have our Sins pardon'd here, and our Souls eternally sav'd hereafter.

On the last Lord's Day, the 24th instant , I preach'd again to them, viz. in the Forenoon, upon part of the first Lesson for that Morning-Service, Gen. 1. 27. So God created Man in his own Image; in the Image of God created He him: Male and Female created He them.

After a general Explanation of these words, I did (in a particular and distinct manner) discourse upon the following Points, arising from them, viz.