THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Wednesday the 26th of June, 1717 .

AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 6th , 7th , and 8th of June, 1717 ; Eight Persons, viz. Seven Men and one Woman, who were convicted of several Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death. But one of the Men having obtain'd a gracious Reprieve (which I wish he may have Grace to improve) and the Woman being found Pregnant, and therefore respited from Death for this time, Six of them are now appointed for Execution.

While they lay under this Condemnation, I frequently visited them, and had them brought up, twice every Day, to the Chapel at Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of GOD to them; endeavouring (by the Divine Grace) to inform their Judgments, correct the evil Dispositions of their wicked Hearts, and bring them into a State of Repentance towards GOD, and Faith in our Lord JESUS CHRIST, that by his alone Merits they might obtain the Pardon of their Sins, and the Salvation of their Souls.

On the Lord's Day the 9th instant , being the Day of Pentecost, I preach'd to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon part of the Epistle appointed for that Day, viz. Acts 2. 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other Tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

From which Text (which I chose as being proper for the Solemnity of the Day to be discours'd upon) I did (after a general Explanation both of it and of the Context) treat of these two Things chiefly, viz.

I. The Effusion of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles.

II. The Divine Effects thereof.

In my speaking to which, I shew'd the Happy and Heavenly Disposition the Apostles of Christ were then in for their receiving of the Holy Ghost: And this I prov'd from these Particulars.