THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 16th of July, 1714 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old baily, London, on Wednesday the 30th of June last , Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 1st , 2d , 3d , and 5th instant , Nineteen Persons, viz. Fifteen Men, and Four Women, Try'd for, and found Guilty of several Capital Crimes, did then receive Sentence of Death accordingly. But Seven of the Men, and One of the Women, having obtain'd HER MAJESTY's Reprieve (which I pray GOD they may have Grace duly to improve) Eleven of 'em are now order'd for Execution.

While they were under this melancholy 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 to them, endeavouring both to instruct them in the excellent Duties of the Christian Religion, and perswade them to the careful Practice thereof, from the weighty Consideration, First, of GOD's Severe Justice against obstinate and hardned Sinners; and, Secondly, of his Infinite Mercy to them that do truly and sincerely repent.

And on the Lord's Day, the 4th instant , I preach'd to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon part of the Second Lesson, which came of course to be read that Morning, viz. Luke 16. 23, 24. And in Hell he lift up his Eyes, being in Torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his Bosom. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have Mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his Finger in Water, and cool my Tongue, for I am tormented in this Flame.

From this Text with the Context, first explain'd in general, I then shew'd in particular,

I. That poor Lazarus, as soon as he was dead, had his Soul carried up by Angels into Heaven.

And from hence I prov'd these Three Points, viz.

1st, That the Soul is capable of an Existence, separated from the Body; and therefore is not (as some Atheists vainly dream) a meer Affection of, or Accidence to the Body, but a distinct Spiritual Subsistence, dwelling in it.

2dly, That the Souls of Good Men, and True Penitents, when they depart out of their Bodies, are, like that of Lazarus, immediately admitted into a State of Rest and Blessedness in Heaven, signified by Abraham's Bosom. And,