Necessity, for the Riches they will remember they left upon Earth. In short, The Scourges of Satan will wound the deepest in the Man of Ease and Sloath, for his former tender Indulgence. We should therefore with St. Paul, rather covet Afflictions; 2 Cor. 11. 25. Thrice was I beaten with Rods, once was I Stoned, thrice I suffer'd Shipwrack; a Night and a Day I have been in the Deep.

Indeed, we think, that to be out of the Gaieties of Life, is to be dead to the World; The Apostle's Opinion was the Reverse; and he tells the Widows, She that liveth in Pleasure is dead while she liveth. 1 Tim. 5. 6.

THIRDLY, We advised all to make this Exclamation in time; to prevent their having Cause to make it at the Last Day. And those especially who had so particularly sinned.

- There is no cheating or over-reaching God. He sees the Sinner in his darkest Recess; and tho' Providence may permit ye to proceed for a while, 'tis like the Master, who corrects not his Scholar till he has exaggerated his Faults; For so God would have the Sinner retrieve and buy off the Punishment hanging over his Head.

So contradictory is the Nature of Man, that tho' we Contrive for Wealth and Pleasure by Ill Courses, we own at the very same time, that neither Pleasure nor Wealth can come but from God.

'Tis agreeable to Reason to think, that the Being who first turn'd Men's Hearts to the Love of Society, continues to preserve that Regularity it first introduced into the World. Wherefore did God give us Reason, if we are to live the Life of Savage Beasts? If we are to inhabit the Woods, to spoil, ravage, and prey upon one another, why were we not form'd agreeable to that? Let us discard that useless thing, Reason, that will only tell us we disgrace the Name of Man, While we make that Being hunt the sordid Earth, that was design'd by the Creator to gaze at the Heavens.

1. John Kein< no role > , was condemned for the Murder of his Wife, by giving her a Wound in her Throat of 6 Inches, with a Knife.

In the Account he gave me of his Life; he said, He was of his Father's Trade a Weaver . But tho' he had the tenderest of Fathers, and was the only Child, yet he left his Father when very Young, and went into the Army, where he was a Serjeant ; All ways of Living were insipid to him but that; he said, he was at the taking Doway in Flanders ; But her Late Majesty ending the War, (among other Regiments) his was broke: Immagining he should be Heir to his Father's Effects, he left the Queen's Service, and at his Father's Death was worth 500 l. A very great Sum to him, as nothing is little but by Comparison. But being a great Company-keeper, and no great OEconomist, he soon diminished his Fortune, was arrested, and made a Prisoner in Wood-street-Compter .

He said, he had always kept Company with Leud Women, but of all, he never was downright in Love with any, but her he had Married, and unhappily Murdered. He said he should not have Married her (having a Wife living) but that he thought, there was not, nor cou'd not be in the World, another Person like her, with all Excellencies and Perfections; For which reason he openly wedded her at St. Andrews-Church , Holborn , after the Banns had been there thrice Publish'd; and he said, very willingly took his Tryal for it afterwards at the Old Baily ; Thinking nothing too much to undergo or sustain for her Sake.

He also told me, he was very well satisfied and contented to dye; and Life he never expected; well knowing His Majesty would not pardon a Crime of the Nature of his: Therefore (he said) he had, to the utmost of his Power, endea