could not be virtuous; or the flying from the Power of doing Good, to avoid the Temptation of doing Ill. That God does not command us to avoid all Meat, all Wine, all Recreation, nor to be prouder than our Neighbours, beause we enjoy our selves less. That God does not command us, icely to avoid the usual Cloathing of our Native Country; nor order those who condemn all Rules and Ceremonies in Others, to Speak, Walk and Dress by the strictest Forms and Rules of their own; showing by an artificial Plainness, but a more exact and labour'd Pride. God has in one of his Works shown us, that we are to be tyed down to bare Necessaries only; The Birds being created to please the Ear, the Fruits to the Taste, and the whole Earth cover'd with an enamel'd Green, delight and ease the Sight, to demonstrate, that the Creator delights in ghting his Creatures.

T. farther, while Men indulge in innocent Amusements, let them remember a Death and Judgment; that the greatest Strength must fade, and the Voice of Joy give way to Groans: When the Light will be sweet no more, and the Talk of Friends no longer able to Chear.

And this, Tho' a Man should live many Years, and rejoyce in them all. The Good and Bad shall meet with their Reward at last. The Lord is not slack (as some Men count slackness) but is long-suffering, not willing that any should Perish, but that all should come to Repentance. But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night, when the Heavens shall pass away with a great Noise, and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat; and the Earth also, and the Works therein shall be burnt up. 2 Pet. 3. 9. Tho' some Sinners escape Misfortunes long, and long avoid the Hand of Justice; Yet where was ever One that render'd himself Rich and Fortunate, and Flourishing by Spoil and Plunder? Tho' long he prospers and lives at large, yet at last he is always trapped in the Work of his own Hands. As Solomon saith, all Sinners who hurry and toil, and display much Vigour and Ingenuity in Vice, do lay wait for their own Blood, they lurk privately for their own Lives. Who but now plainly sees, that while the Plunderer is sweating and fatiguing to annoy Others, he is labouring his own Destruction.

LASTLY, We advised them, among other Things; tho' the Light is sweet, yet, as themselves had plung'd their Bodies into Darkness, to acquiesce in their Condition, nor attempt by Violence to get free from Justice; but rather to regard their Souls, that tho' Bound here, they might hereafter enter into the glorious Liberties of the Sons of God, by a sincere Sorrow for their Sins; not as they had loaded them with Chains, and depriv'd them of the sweet Light of the Sun; but as they had affronted an indulgent God, and Crucifyed Christ a-fresh: By working out their own Salvation with fear and trembling; preparing for the Holy Sacrament, invoking the Spirit of God, &c.

The Behaviour, &c. of these unfortunate People under Sentence of DEATH.

JULIAN, a Black-Boy from India, was indicted for stealing between twenty and thirty Guineas, out of the dwelling House of Mrs. Eliza