THE Ordinary of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Confessions, and last dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday the 18th, of July, 1722 .

AT the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery of Newgate, which began at Justice Hall in the Old-Baily, on the 4th, of this Instant July, 1722 . were Convicted of capital Offences Seven Persons, viz. Thomas Wakelin< no role > , John Morphew< no role > , Thomas Rice< no role > , Nathamel Jackson, John Molony< no role > , James Carrick< no role > This name instance is in set 3061. , and Thomas Butloin< no role > . The two first receiving his Majesties Reprieve; the remaining were Order'd for Execution. The Sunday preceeding their Death, they had a Sermon Preach'd to them, from Rom. 7. 24.

Oh! Wretched Man that I am, Who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death?

FIRST, we consider'd the Words, as relating to the Body of that Death of Sin, which the Apostle is complaining of.

SECONDLY, With respect to the particular Death of great Sinners.

THIRDLY, What strong Reason all Men have to Exclaim like the Apostle, concerning the Force and Prevalence of natural vicious Inclinations, entail'd upon us by Adam, and encreased by the Gay prospects of the World, and Incitements of Satan.

FOURTHLY, The especial Reason that some there present had, to exclaim in such a manner against the Body of Sin, who so dismally felt the Force and Effects of Vice, being torn and hurried from Light and Life, in an ignominous Manner, even in the Prime of their Youth; fulfilling the Psalmists Words, That Sinners should not live out half their Days.

For the Application, we advised the Persons under Sentence of Death, to be greatly on their Guard, to labour earnestly to conquer the vicious Habits of their degenerate Minds (if that Work remain'd to be perform'd) since even St. Paul found those Inclinations so powerfully strong in him, as sometimes to bring him into Captivity, and to produce such an Exclamation as this. (2) If the Apostle found such Unhappiness in Life, such violent and uneasy Combats as made him desire rather to be dissolved and