THE Ordinary of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 22d, of December, 1721 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayly, on the 6 , 7 , &c. Days of this Instant December, were try'd and Convicted of Capital Crimes, eight Men and three Women. The three Women, with three of the Men, Receiving his Majesty's Reprieve, upon Condition of being Transported to the Plantations in America, the remaining Five Malefactors were Order'd for Execution, agreeable to the Sentence pass'd upon them by Law.

Before the Time appointed for their Deaths, I endeavoured to instruct them from the following Text of Scripture,

The Wages of Sin is Death. Rom. 6. Chap. Part of 23 Verse.

FIRST, The Wages or natural Consequence of Sin is Death; both Temporal and Eternal. Temporal, because as Sins naturally tend to the loosening and destroying Society, they must also Naturally tend to the destroying each Man, who is a Part of Society; so God said to Adam, that in the Hour he Sined he should die, or be liable to Death. The Wages of Sin is also eternal Death, for as each Sin is committed against an infinite Being, it merits an infinite Punishment.

SECONDLY, What Sins are more especially paid with Death. As Thieving, which brings so many to untimely Ends. Drunkenness and Intemperance, which naturally weaken the Body, and gradually bring it to the Grave. Rebellion and a factious Spirit, which as it is very pernicious to others, so it is seldom itself in Death lies down in Peace, &c.

THIRDLY, we took Notice that the Wages or natural Consequence of Sin being Death, would prevent a wise Man's murmuring or repining at Death, tho' a Death so ignominious and shameful, as that of dying on a Tree between the Heavens and the Earth, because the natural result of illegal Actions.