4. ult. The high Degree of Repentance the Person guilty of such an enormous Bloody Fact, should st up himself to, that he may pacify the Wath of GOD which is denounc'd and gone out against him, and have the Blood of Christ, that speaks better things than the Blood of Abel, plead for his Pardon, when he shall come to appear before the Dreadful Tribunal.

On the last Lord's Day, the 8th instant , I preach'd again to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon these Words of GOD, Ezek. 18. the latter part of the 4th Verse. The Soul that sinneth, it shall die.

From which I shew'd,

I. That every Man is to answer and suffer for his own, and not for others Faults, wherein he is not concern'd.

II. That the Death mention'd in the Text is opposite to the Life promis'd the Penitent in the 21st and following Verses of this Chapter. And,

III. ult. That both this Death and that Life are Certain and Eternal.

Which having made out by Proofs from Scripture, I then treated at large of the two vastly different States of the other World; shewing,

1. The severe Punishment of impenitent Sinners after this Life.

2. The happy Condition they shall be in then, who truly repent now.

To these Heads and Particulars I fully spoke, and then concluded all with suitable Exhortations to the Persons condemn'd; who seem'd to be some more, some less) attentive to what was then deliver'd, according to their respective Capacities of being affected therewith.

In my private Examinations of them, they severally gave me the Account of their past Lives and present Dispositions, as follows.

1. Samuel Awdry< no role > This name instance is in set 1427. , condemn'd for privately stealing a Silver-hilted Sword from Mr. George Philips< no role > , as he was passing thro' Round-court in the Strand . He own'd he was guilty of that Fact, but of no other that could have touch'd his Life. He said, he was 20 Years of Age, born in the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields : That his Father, when alive, kept a publick House in that Parish, and employ'd him at home ; but when he grew pretty big, he went to Sea , and serv'd 5 Years on board the Windsor, and the Kingston, two Men of War, commanded by Capt. Trevor alternately; and that he was for the most part of that time at Port-Royal in the West-Indies , where he liv'd as well as ever he could wish to live, and might have been happy, if he had staid there. But having a mind to see his Native Country again, he return'd into England, and getting into ill Company, those Vices he had contracted before, soon encreas'd, which were many, as Swearing, Whoring, Drinking, prophaning the Lord's Day, and neglecting both private and publick Prayer, and other Acts of Devotion; and at last committed this Fact he is to die for; which he acknowledg'd his loose way of Living; his Gaming to a prodigious rate, as he did, even to the winning or losing of Ten pounds and upwards at a Night, had brought him to. He was Brother to Roderick Awdry< no role > This name instance is in set 1425. , and John Awdry< no role > This name instance is in set 12661151. , who were executed at Tyburn , viz Roderick on the 28th of May , and John the 22d of December, 1714 , for diverse Felonies and Robberies