Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

1st February 1725

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26th December 1724


and to our God for he will abundantly pardon him. From which Words we first shew?d the Nature and Extent of a true return unto God (or in other Words) a sincere Repentance. 2dly, shew?d the manner of the Performance of it to render it acceptable to God. 3dly, We brought to their View the grand Motives and Encouragements for then gaging in this great, but advantagesous (and indeed) necessary Work and for our Conclusion of the Whole we left them with these ops, that whereas (they by an ill conduct of Life had brought them selves to that sad Pass, tha human Life had so far taken Cognzance of their Crimes, that nthing can satisfie it but the loss of their mortal Lives) they still h a Aylu a anctuary to fly unto, to escape the Death of the im and better Part, of them, as long as the Words of the Text, with t th Sheep, the lost Piece of Money, and the returning P stand upon Record in Sacred Writing; not to mention the Penitent Thief on the Cross, or those who had loiter?d and idled away eleven Hours of the Day, and receiv?d a Prmium equal with those who had born the Burden and Heat of it.

On the Sunday before the Execution, we instructed them from the Words of the Royal Psalmist, in his 7th Psalm, and the 12th Verse. God is a Righteous Judge, Strong and patient, and God is provoked every Day. From these Words, we first prov?d the Existence of a God from concurrent Texts of sacred Scripture, and that this God will be our Judge. 2dly, We consider?d separately the several Attributes the Prophet gives unto our Judge, that he is a righteous and Just Judge; that he is a strong and powerful Judge. From the Consideration of which, we inferr?d the Madness, Ingratitude, and inexcusableness of the persevering hardned Sinner, letting them know for a farewell, that if the Justice and Power of God do not Awe, nor his Patience and long Suffering lead Men to Repentance, they can expect nothing less than the Experience of that Anathema subsequent to my Text. If a Man will not turn, God will whet his Sword, be hath bent his Bow and made it ready, he hath prepared for him the Instruments of Death, he ordained his Arrows against the Persecutors; or in the Languate of the Gospel; Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Anguish, upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil, upon the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.

The Account of these Persons under Sentence of Death.

JOHN HEWLET< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , OF THE Parish of St Andrew?s Holborn , was Indicted for the Murder of Joseph Candy< no role > , by giving him with a Staff, a mortal Bruise on the Heat, on the 26th of December last , of which he instantly Died; upon hearing the Evidence for the Deceas?d and he having nothing material to urge in his own Defence, but his bare Denial of the Fact; the Jury in Strength of the Circumstances, convicted him of that capital Offence, and he was Sentenc?d accordingly.

When come into the Condemn?d Hold, he was there visited the Night following his Condemnation, on the Score of his Inability of coming to Chappel; where, and when, he (when being show?d the Crimson Nature of Murder, with the several aggravating Circumstances of it) regardless of




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