From which Words, and from other Scripture parallel thereto, I shew'd,

I. That all Men, and all their Works, shall be brought to Judgment.

II. That that Judgment is Certain, and will be most Exact.

III. ult. That therefore it highly concerns every one to make due Preparation for it, and avoid the intolerable Severity of it by Faith and Repentance; which Men ought to beg of GOD, the Giver of every good and perfect Gift; Jam. i. 17.

Yesterday, the 16th instant , being the Lord's Day, when I expected James Sheppard< no role > should be, but was not, brought up to the Chapel with the rest of the Prisoners condemn'd, I preach'd upon these Words of GOD in Exod. xx. 13. Thou shalt not kill.

From which Words, ilustrated by several other Texts I quoted out of the Old and New Testament, I shew'd,

I. The heinous Nature of the Crime of Murder.

II. The Severe Punishment due to it, which is irremissible, as the Fact is irreparable, in this World.

III. ult. How the Person guilty, ought carefully and thoroughly to repent of it, and also of all other Sins, chiefly those that might have had a tendency to this.

Upon these I enlarg'd, and then proceeded to the Application; concluding the Whole with particular Admonitions, suitable to the sad Circumstances of them that were under Sentence of Death; who seem'd (most of them) to be very attentive to my publick Instructions, as they were to my private Exhortations and ghostly Advice, seriously hearkening to what I taught and offer'd to them from the Comfortable Word of God, for the good of their Souls; who earnestly desir'd my Prayers for them; which they had, and which, I hope, were heard by Him, to whom Holy David makes this his Address in Psal. 65. 2. O Thou that hearest Prayer! Unto Thee shall all Flesh come.

In my more retir'd Conversation with these dying Persons, they gave me the respective Accounts of themselves, which follow.

I. Ferdinando Marquess de Paléotti< no role > , condemn'd for Stabbing his Servant John Niccolo< no role > , on the 11th of February last . He said, he was 38 Years of age, born of a Noble Family in Italy, brought up in the Roman Catholick Religion, and had been for many Years past an Officer, and was actually a Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons in the Emperor's Service. In my frequent Visits to him, and Conversation with him in French, which (next to his Mother-Tongue) was the Language he understood best, he express'd a great deal of Uneasiness at his close Confinement and his Fetters; an Usage, he said, he had never met with before; and upon that, was very much dissatisfy'd and impatient. He deny'd the Murder he was condemn'd for, and would not at first hear any-body