THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at TYBURN on Wednesday the 21st of September, 1715 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 7th , 8th , and 9th Days of September, 1715 , Eleven Persons, viz. Six Men, and Five Women, being Try'd for, and found Guilty of, diverse Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death. Six of them, viz. Three of the Women, reported to be pregnant, and another Young Woman of 12 Years of Age, together with Two of the Men, having obtain'd the Mercy of a Reprieve (which I wish they may be so wise as to improve into Amendment of Life) Five only are now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this melancholy Circumstance of Condemnatio I constantly visited them, and had them brought up to the Chapel of Newgate, where I attended twice every Day, and pray'd with them, to whom I also read and expounded the Word of GOD; shewing them from that Sacred Word of Truth, on the one hand, the Severity of GOD's Justice to harden'd and impenitent Sinners, and on the other hand, the greatness of His tender Mercy to such, as will be melted by his Grace into true Repentance and Reformation of Life.

On the Lord's Day the 11th instant , I preach'd to the Condemn'd and others there present, upon these Words of our Blessed Saviour, Matt. 5. 20. For except your Righteousness shall exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

From which Words, I shew'd,

I. The Noble Design and Blessed End of the Christian Religion, which lays upon the Professors of it an indispensable Obligation to do whatsoever GOD commands, and avoid what He forbids, who requires of them true Sincerity in their Discharge of all Religious and other Duties, without the least Mixture of any Invention of their own with the pure Doctrine of the Gospel; which as nothing is to be added to, so nothing is to be diminish'd from. In both which Points the Pharisees of Old were, and their Followers in our Days are, very defective; as I made it appear under the next Head; wherein I shew'd;

II. The Difference between the Christian and the Pharisaical Religion; the latter of which principally consisted in pompous Ceremonies and outward Performances of Traditions, Rites, and Services, which (for the most