THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviours, Confessions, and Last Dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 12th of May, 1721 .

BEFORE the Execution of the Two Malefactors, who out of Five Condemn'd, were then appointed for Death (Three having receiv'd his Majesty's most Gracious Reprieve) I instructed them from the following Text.

And he would fain have filled his Belly with the Husks that the Swine did eat, and no Man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired Servants of my Father's have Bread enough and to spare, and I perish with Hunger.

I will arise, and go to my Father; and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy Son; make me as one of thy hired Servants. Luke 15. 16, 17, 18, and 19 Verses.

In considering the Words, We

FIRST, made three Observations from the Parable; viz. 1st, The roving unsettled Minds of Sinners, which occasions great part of their Unhappiness, and drives them from one Lebauchery, restless to another; and he Journeyed into a far Country; and perhaps our Saviour might have a Thought of Egypt, because Husks, signifies an Egyptian Fig, the Rine of which alone was eaten. 2dly, The Natural Contempt that follows a Debauched Course of Life, and an Estate wasted by Extravagance: And no Man gave unto him. 3dly, That Men are apt to take up with any Methods of dispersing their Uneasiness, rather than incline to the Delights of Virtue: And he began to be