vy on the Shoulders of the Thoughtless inconsidering Sinner; that he, and he alone who commits the Crime, should undergoe the Punishment due unto it. For (were it not so) we show'd that Justice must lye dormant; and suffer the Children to smart for their Father's Sins; the Innocent for the Guilty; but we gave them to understand that the old Jewish Proverb should no more be made use of in this our Spiritual Israel, viz. That the Children's Teeth should be set on Edge, when their Parents had eaten the sower Grapes; and at the same time we appeal'd to the Experience of the dying part of our Audience, for the Confirmation of this great Truth. We consider'd, Secondly. How the Sinner carries his Burden in this Life; And that was two ways, in his Body, and his Mind. As to the former; We produc'd the Drunkard to give an Account of that load of pain he carries for his Night's Debauch an Excess. The Wanton and Incontinent we call'd in to give us the Reason of the Nakedness of his once richly array'd Body; of the visible Decay of his Quondam robust and flourishing Constitution, and (in a Word) of the emptiness of his Purse: To which they Answer, Our Sins have been the fruitful Parents of this deplorable and shameful Off-spring. And to prove what a Burden the conscious Sinner carries in his Mind; we had recourse to Cain with his Brother's Blood upon him; to David watering his Couch with his Tears; to Peter weeping bitterly, &c, and at the last to the convicted Consciences of our Hearers. Thirdly, We directed and mov'd the Audience to quit the Business (the shameful fatal Business) of being Porters for Hell; to thro' the load of their Sins, (especially those of a crimson die) at the Feet of Christ; by a deep Sorrow, and impartial Confession, and an unalterable Resolution of utterly forsaking of them; and that by so doing, they would make their Passage sweet and easy, through the Gate of Death; and have no intollerable Burden to sweat under, during an everlasting Life. And then, Lastly, we concluded with an Application of the whole, to those who were the more immediate Objects of our Pity and Concern.

The ACCOUNT of the Lives of these MALEFACTORS.

1. JOSEPH WARD< no role > , late of the Parish of Pancrass , convicted of two Capital Offences, viz. Assaulting Jane Vickery< no role > , and taking from her a Gold Ring, value 20 s. and Elizabeth Barker< no role > taking from her a Gold Ring, Set with Garnet, and accordingly receiv'd Sentence of Death. Said, he knew not the Place of his Nativity; giving to understand, that his Parents were (at the Time of his Birth) People travelling a-round the Country, dealing in Pewter