THE Ordinary of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Thursday the 8th of February, 1722 .

AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly , which ended the 17th of January , were Try'd, and Convicted of Capital Offences, five Men, viz. James Shaw< no role > This name instance is in set 3050. , alias Smith< no role > , &c. John Smith< no role > , William Colthouse< no role > , Jonas Burgess< no role > and George Nicholas< no role > ; The last of these receiving His Majesty's Gracious Reprieve, the remaining Four were ordered for Execution agreeable to the Sentence pass'd upon them.

Before the Day of Death I endeavour'd to instruct them from the Sentence pass'd upon them.

I said, In the Cutting off of my Days, I shall go down to the Gates of the Grave; I am deprived of the Residue of my Years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the Land of the Living, I shall behold Man no more with the Inhabitants of the World. Isaiah 38. 10, 11.

From this Complaint which Hezekiah made to God, we took Occasion to observe,

FIRST, That God is the most proper Being for all sorts of Men to apply to in Calamity and Distress; as he is most Able and Willing to assist, being the great Disposer of Men's Lives and Conditions; and as he is the Universal Father, and has Bowels of Compassion toward all Mankind.

NEXT, we briefly considered the Nature of the Creator, as he is here mentioned changing his Intent of letting Hezekiah die, and adding to his Days even fifteen Years, altho' Unchangeableness and Immutability are the Creators eternal Attributes.

WE observ'd besides, the Condescension of God in Reclining so much to the natural Frailties of Man, That least King Hezekiah should