Roe< no role > , &c.) He was plainly answer'd to these Objections; and on his Tryal, was found guilty of the Murder, upon Circumstances the most strong and convincive that for many Years have been known or heard at the abovenam'd Court of Justice. Upon his Conviction, Sentence was not pronounc'd upon him, till the 30th of Nov. last .

Before he suffer'd Death, I endeavour'd to Instruct him from the following Words of David,

Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness, O God Psalm 51. ver. 14.

From whence we First consider'd the nature of Blood guiltiness; According to (1.) The Law of Nature; to which Murder is contrary; and altho' so weak was this Law, that even in the most refin'd Times of the Greeks and Romans, Murders were allow'd in publick Sports and the Solemnizing Funerals, Sacrifices, &c. yet Seneca, in his 7th Epist. condemns such barbarous Spectacles; and Cicero in his Tuse. Quest. calls 'em cruel and inhuman Showes. And tho' the Spartans had a Law, that no maimed Child should be bred up, but exposed to wild Beasts; which was allow'd among the Romans, when a Child was Maim'd, or Spurious, or Infirm, or when the Parents could not provide for it (both the Greeks and Romans following the Law of Plato therein, and the Advice of Aristotle;) yet, a few Centuries before our Saviour, many learn'd Heathens began to complain of the Barbarity of thus exposing their own Off-spring to Birds and Beasts. &c.

(2.) According to the Jewish Law. For altho' the Jews enervated the sixth Command by Blood shed thro' Zeal; and tho' nothing was so much wanting among them as the Love of Mercy, toward all other Nations, as Josephus says; which Spirit discovers it self even in the excellent Son of Syrach, Ecclus. 50. 25. which led the Apostle to say, they were contrary to all Men, 1 Thess. 2. 16: Yet the Law of Moses was most express that whosoe sheds Mans Blood, by Man should his Blood be shed. Thus, tho' David was led into the Crime of Murder, by his extravagant Love of Bathsheba; yet when his Reason was cool, he was so regardful of the Life of a Man, that when he long'd in the heat of War, and cry'd and said, Oh! that one would give me to drink of the Water of the Well of Bethlem, and three mighty Men broke thro' the Host of the Philstines and drew Water, and brought it to David, we read that neversheless he would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord, and said, Be it far from me that I should do this; Is not this the Blood of the Men that went in jeopardy of their Lives? 2 Sam. 23.

(3.) According to the Christian Law; which saith, he who hateth his Brother is a Murderer; which forbids us to grudge one against another; commands us not to e angry without a Cause; not to render evil for evil; but to have such Charity as envyeth not; In Imitation of Christ; All we like Sheep have gone a stray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the Iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his Mouth, he is brought as a Lamb to the Slaughter,