Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

8th June 1716

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20th May 1716


THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at TYBURN, on Friday the 8th of June, 1716 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old baily, on Thursday the 17th , Friday the 18th , and Saturday the 19th of May, 1716 , Ten Persons, viz Eight Men and Two Women, that were found Guilty of several Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: But One of the Women being reported to be Pregnant, and Three of the Men, having obtain'd HIS MAJESTY'S Gracious Reprieve (which I hope they will take care duly to improve) Five Men and One Woman are now order'd for Execution.

While they lay under this melancholy state of Condemnation, I constantly visited them, sometimes in their Dungeon, but oftner in the Chapel of Newgate, where I had them to attend twice every Day at Prayer and the Reading of the Word of GOD, which I expounded to them; instructing them (chiefly) in the most necessary Points of Faith and Repentance: And,

On the Lord's Day the 20th of May last , being the Day of Pentecost, I preach'd to them and others then present (both in the Morning and Afternoon) upon the Words of Our Blessed Saviour, Joh. 15. 26. But when the Comforter (whom will send unto you from the Father) even the Spirit of proceedeth from the Father, He will testify of me.

From which Words, first explain'd at large with their Context, and illustrated by parallel Places, I then shew'd, That in them these Two great Points chiefly are observable, viz.

I. A Discovery (in general) of the whole Sacred Trinity; For in that CHRIST says, I will send the Spirit from the Father, the Three Divine Persons are here mention'd.

II. A Description (in particular) of the Holy Spirit, of whom it is said in this Place,

1. That He is the Comforter.

2. That He will come.

3. That He shall be Sent, viz.{from the Father. by the Son. to the Apostles & their Followers.

4. That He is the Spirit of Truth.

5. That He proceeds from the Father.

6. ult. That He gives his Testimony of the Son.

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