THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 2d of February, 1714/1715.

AT the general Quarter Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily , on Friday the 14th , Saturday the 15th , and Monday the 17th of this last January , several Persons were Try'd for high Crimes; and of them, Six (viz. Five Men and One Woman) being found Guilty of Death, 4 were Repriev'd (which Mercy I wish they may rightly improve) and 2 only order'd for Execution.

While they all lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited and instructed them, and to that purpose had them brought up (twice every day) to the Chapel of Newgate , where I read Prayer, and the Word of GOD, which I expounded to them; giving them such Admonitions and Exhortations from that Sacred Word, as I thought might be proper to awaken their stupify'd and sinful Souls, from their spiritual Lethargy, unto a Life of true Repentance and Righteousness.

On the Lord's Day, the 16th of this last January, I preach'd to them (both in the Morning and Afternoon) upon Rom. 12. the former part of the 10th Verse, taken out of the Epistle appointed for that Day, the Words being these, Be kindly affectioned one to another with Brotherly Love.

From which Words I shew'd, That Christian Love (which is so much recommended to us under the Gospel-Dispensation) does naturally put Men upon a ready and chearful Performance of all Acts of Mercy and Benevolence within their Power, and effectually restrains them from wronging any Person whatsoever: And as it thus disposes them, upon all occasions, to do good to others, as they might desire others should do good to them; so it makes them as careful to avoid the doing any Injury to, as themselves would be desirous not to receive the like from, other Men. Which is plainly the Meaning of the Apostle's Precept in the Text, of being kindly affectioned one to another with Brotherly Love.

To the constant Exercise and Practice of this great Duty, I exhorted my Auditory, chiefly the Condemned, from these Considerations, viz.

I. The Excellency and Reasonableness of it.

II. The Natural and Religious Obligations we lie under duly to perform it.

III. and lastly, The great Advantages (both Spiritual and Temporal) accruing to Mankind from it.

In order to which, I directed them,

1st, To compare their former Life with this Precept in the Text: And,

2ly, To rectify all past Miscarriages, and regulate their future Life, by it.