should rather set themselves seriously about their Duty, and as Christ says, strive to enter in at the strait Gate.

THIRDLY, we consider'd the subsequent Words, Yea, come, buy Wine and Milk without Money, and without Price. Tho' we cannot pretend to Merit and acquire Heaven, by any Performances of our own, having added to original Sin, many actual Transgressions, yet we must endeavour, as far as in us lies, to perfect Holiness in the fear of God: Since we are sanctify'd by Morality, as by Faith we are Justified: Nor can real Faith be without Virtue; all other Faith being a false and pretended Faith. For which Cause tho' the Person under Condemnation especially, was to be instant and earnest in his Duty, and sedalous in his Devotions, making a kind of Attonement for the badness of his Life, by his good Behaviour at the Time of his Death; yet was he not to relye, or depend upon any such performances as Meritorious, or proper to obtain him Heaven; but at the Hour of Death, must lay them aside, resting and depending of the meritorious Sufferings of his Saviour; that the stains of his Sins may be done away, and the Handwriting of Ordinances that was against him may be blotted out, thro' the Blood of that immaculate Lamb that was slain from the Foundation of the World.

FOURTHLY, We endeavour'd to direct the Man under Condemnation, how he was to behave himself, under the greatest Tryal that can happen to any Man, to wit, in the last Moments of Life, when Death and Eternity appear immediately before him, and he is entering into the Presence of God and Christ, and the Holy Angels, together with all the great and good Men that ever lived in this World.

To the Instructions that were given him, he seem'd to attend, with a good deal of seriousness; and altho' some times his Relations or Acquaintance would be whispering to him, of their own Concerns, he seem'd to decline and avoid them, as much as possible; pressing the Affairs that related to his Soul, before those Temporal ones which concern'd his Body. And for one thing, he was to be particularly commended; inasmuch as a certain Person put him in Mind, that as he lay so long in the deplorbale condition of Condemnation, he had a fair Opportunity of considering ways and means to make his escape; he declin'd the Offers of his Acquaintance, and declar'd to him, he had us'd to much Violence already, nor intended to use any more; neither would he escape if it was in his Power, at the Expence of shedding the Blood of Innocent Persons, and adding to his fomer Offences the crying Sin of Wilful and deliberate Murther.

The Account given me by this Prisoner, during the time that he lay under Sentence of Death.

WILLIAM BURK< no role > , of St. Dunstan's Stepney , was indicted, for that he, about 7 o'Clock at Night, on the Eleventh of February last