Being ask'd how he cou'd let such Viciousness enter into his Mind, especially at a time when such miserable Calamities and Disasters lay heavy upon him? He denied not but that he had once or twice perform'd such Actions, but said, he repented and would not so Act any more in the Condemn'd-Hole; which was all he would at any time say about the Matter. But tho' all the Three who were adjudg'd most Guilty, appear'd to all that saw them, to remarkably stupid and unconcern'd, yet after the Warrant for Execution was carry'd to the Prison, their Deportment was very much altered, at least that of Mackey and Whiting, who express'd themselves how much they were greiv'd, that nothing could infuse into White any Appearance of a Concern or Regard. But at last he was so good to himself as to be persuaded to learn the Lord's Prayer and the Apostle's Creed, which he promis'd he would repeat all the way as he went to his Execution.

The Sunday preceeding their Deaths, in the former part of the Day, I preach'd to them from the Words,

Woe unto Us that we have Sinned! LAMENT. 5. 16.

FIRST, Considering from the Words, the woe in General, and the Unhappiness that all Men must expect in this Life, being born so to trouble as the Sparks fly upwards. While Courts Envy and Ambition, Cities have Faction, Villages have Calumny, and even an Established Church its Sects and Divisions, Men must acquiese in that Misery which Adam entail'd upon his Posterity, by taking Satnan's Word before that of God.

SECONDLY, We took notice what a particular Woe and Unhappiness must attend Sinners in this Life. Robbers being never safe nor quiet; but as all Men must naturally look upon such as Persons designing to spoil and prey upon 'em, so they must as naturally look upon all honest Men as their inveterate Enemies, whose business it is to detect them, and bring them to that Justice they are conscious to themselves they deserve. Especially, unhappy must they be, as they well know God and Heaven will be their Enemy, and that Death will prove the Beginning of new Woes to them, and yet expect every Hour to be Discover'd, and hurried to a shameful End: Especially, unhappy are such Men, as they dare not let Thoughts or Reflection take place in their Minds, but carefully stifle them, at the expence of their own Health, by continu'd Drunkenness and Debaucheries: Unhappy, as God does not give a Blessing to their Refreshments and Enjoyments.

THIRDLY, We endeavour'd to show them; how they were to prevent eternal Woe and Misery its faling upon them, altho' a temporal Woe had overtaken them, and loaded with Chains of Affliction, and plunged 'em into a Place of Darkness.

In the After part of the Day, I preach'd to them from the Words of David, Psal. 39. 13.

Oh Spare me! that I may recover Strength, before I go hence and be no more seen.