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

22nd July 1719

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19th July 1719


Upon those Particulars I enlarg'd: And,

On the Lord's day the 19th instant , I preach'd to them again, both in the Morning and Afternoon, on part of the Epistle appointed for that Day, viz Rom. 8. 13, the Words being these, For if ye live after the Flesh, ye shall die; but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortifie the Deeds of the Body, Ye shall live.

In discoursing upon this Text, after a general Explanation of it, I laid down before my Auditory these Particulars; viz.

I. That there is a Life which tends to Death, and that is the Carnal Life, meant by these Words, If ye live after the Flesh ye shall die.

II. That there is a Death which tends to Life, express'd in this latter part of the Text; If ye through the Spirit do mortifie the Deeds of the Body, ye shall live.

III. Ult. That as the Curse, which Men bring upon themselves by living a Carnal and Sensual Life, consists not only of a Temporal Death here, but Eternal Death hereafter; so the Blessedness of a Spiritual Life, is not only Peace of Conscience in this World, but Eternal Peace with GOD in the next.

Having enlarg'd upon these, I concluded all with particular suitable Admonitions and Exhortations to the Persons Condemned, whom I instructed both in publick and private: And in my Closet-Conferences with them, they gave me the respective Accounts of themselves, which Follow.




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