On the Lord's Day, the 12th instant , I preach'd to them again, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon, upon 1 Pet. 2. 11. being part of the Epistle appointed for that Day, and the Words these, Dearly Beloved, I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims, abstain from Fleshly Lusts, which war against the Soul.

In my discoursing upon this Text, I chiefly spoke to these Points, viz.

I. The Argument here us'd by the Apostle to exhort us from Fleshly Lusts.

II. What those Fleshly Lusts, and their dismal Effects, are.

III. ult. The Obligation we lie under to abstain from them, both in point of Duty and Interest.

And Yesterday the 19th instant , I did again preach to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon, on 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his Body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad.

These Words I first explain'd in general, and then shew'd from them is particular,

I. That there is a Judgment to come.

II. That it will be an universal, strict, and impartial Judgment.

III. ult. That the due Consideration thereof should make us all careful to prepare for it, and by all the Acts of Faith and Repentance (which can be exerted by us in this World) avoid the dreadful Severity of it in the next.

Having enlarg'd upon those Heads, and shew'd especially the dangerous and sad Consequences of Sin unrepented of; I then concluded all these Sermons with particular Instructions and Admonitions to the Persons condemn'd; whom I did, not only on these Publick Days, but every Day in the Week, teach in the great Doctrin (and exhort to the constant Practice) of Faith and Repentance: A Work of the highest Import for them both to have a right Knowledg of, and make it their chiefest Business (as it was their greatest Concern for the few remaining Days they had now to live) constantly to exert themselves in.

In my private Discourses with them, I examin'd them about their Principles and Manners: And what Information I could receive herein from them respectively, is as follows.

1. Francis Williams< no role > , condemn'd for assaulting on the King's Highway one William Honour< no role > a Post-boy , and taking from him a Strawberry Gelding and a Black one (both belonging to Mr. Bowchier) with 4 Mails, and 50 Leather-bags, wherein (among other things) were several BankNotes, Matthew Chessey< no role > being in company with him, and another, one Holyday, the Evidence against him; which Fact they committed near Turnham Green in the County of Middlesex , on the 23d of January last . He said, he was 28 Years of age, born at Rosse in Herefordshire : That he was a Maltster by Trade (and had for a little while been a Gentleman's Servant ) who though sometimes reduced to great Streights,