And Yesterday, being the 7th of this instant June , and the Second Sunday after Trinity, I Preached to them again, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon; taking my Text out of the Gospel appointed for that Day, viz. St. Luke 14. 16, 17. Verses, and part of the 18th Verse. Then saith He unto him, A certain Man made a great Supper, and bad many: And sent his Servant at Supper-time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are uow ready. And they all with one Consent, began to make excuse.

From this Text and the Context, wherein our Blessed Saviour sets forth His Parable of the great Supper, I observ'd, these Chief Things; viz.

I. The Person Inviting.

II. The Thing He Invites to.

III. The Company Invited.

IV. The Place of Invitation.

V. Ult. The unworthy Refusal made by them that were Invited.

In my Explanation of those several Particulars, I shew'd How in that Parable Our Blessed Saviour sets forth this great Truth, viz. That ALMIGHTY GOD lovingly invites Men to His Kingdom of Glory and Happiness, and They often unworthily reject His most gracious Invitation, as being more taken with the Things of the Earth here below, than with those infinitely better Things that are in Heaven above.

Having enlarged upon all those Points, and endeavour'd to incline the Hearts of my Hearers to obey CHRIST's Call, and accept of the Felicity they were invited to, by HIM in whose Presence is fulness of Joy, and at whose Right Hand there are Pleasures for evermore; I did, for a Conclusion of the Whole, in a special manner apply my self to the Persons Condemned, whom I exhorted, more and more to take an impartial Survey of their past vicious Lives, seriously to consider their present dismal Condition because they had Sinned, and effectually labour to prevent their future miserable State, and obtain (through CHRIST's Merits) a Life of Endless Happiness in the next World, by making a wise Use of their few remaining (and therefore precious) Moments in this; that they might be at Peace with GOD, with their Neighbour, and with their own Consciences, before their Great Change came, which was now so near at hand.

As they were attentive to my publick, so likewise to my private Instructions and Admonitions, wherein I represented to them the Deformity, Odiousness, and lamentable Consequences of Vice on the one hand, and the Beauty, Loveliness, and blessed Effects of True Religion and Virtue on the other; shewing them, that according as they now lived and dy'd, they should be either Happy, or Miserable for ever. In these they were fully taught, and seem'd to be very clear: And I hope they were most (if not all) of them well dispos'd.

The respective Accounts which they gave me of Themselves are as follow.

1. Henry Broom< no role > , condemn'd upon Five Indictments, viz. First, For breaking open the House of Mr. Samuel Russel< no role > , and taking thence 6 Pair of Holland Sheets, 11 Holland Shirts, 11 China Plates, and other Goods, on the 15th of December last . Secondly, For a like Burglary by him committed in the House of Mr. James Lamb< no role > , stealing thence a Sett of Crimson Damask-Window-Curtains, a Sett of other Window-Curtains of Straw-Colour, a Silver Tea-Pot, a Silver-Mug, a Silver-Porringer, 5 Silver-Spoons, 15 Gold-Rings, and