THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed on Monday the 14th of this Instant March at Tyburn.

At the King's Commission of Cyer and Terminer, and Jayl Delivery of Newgate, held (before the Right Honourable Sir FRANCIS FORBES< no role > , Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London , the Honourable Justice Denton, Mr. Baron Hale, Sir William Thompson< no role > , Knt. Recorder , John Raby< no role > , Esq ; Serjeant at Law ; and several of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the City of London and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall, in the Old Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 2d , 3d , 4th 5th and 7th of March, 1726 , in the twelfth Year of his Majesty's Reign, Seven Men were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Offences, and receiv?d Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence they were instructed in the first Principles of the Christian Religion; how that Man being made after the Divine Image, in Knowledge, Righteousness, and Holiness, had fallen from his primitive Estate of Perfection by his Apostacy fr God; upon which account he had rendered himself obnoxious to the Penalty denounced against the transgression of God's Laws, and that both in this Life and that which is to come: From this I took occasion to shew them that Man being altogether incapabl of recovering himself, or retrieving the Divine Favour. which he had justly forfeited, then it was that Gd, out of pure Love and Companssion to the Miserable, was pleas'd to remember us in our low Condition, and to give his only Beloved Son for the World, that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have eternal Life, John iii. 16. And since God had loved us in so wonderful manner, how ought our Hearts to be inflamed with Love to this God who had loved us so undeservedly, and who, if he had not taken pity pon us, might most justly have thrown us into that bottomless Pit of Perdition, there to be reserv'd with the evil and his Angels, i Chains of Darkness, against the Judgment of the great Day, from whence the is not the least hope or possibility of Redemption &c. I exhorted them to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they might be saved; to endeavour to attain that Faith which worketh by Love, bringing, forth manifold Fruits unto new Obedience, Holiness, Virtue, &c. I Shew'd them the necessity of repenting of all their Sins, from Acts iii. 19. Repent ye therefore and be converted, &c. and except we repent we shall all likewise perish. From these Texts of Scripture I endeavour'd to move, them to a hearty and sincere Repentance, as for Sin in general, so particularly for those heinous Sins Whereof they stood convicted, and the vicious Course of Life which they had followed, and whereof their own Consciences could not but accuse them, &c. I demonstrated to them from many undeniable Reasons, that virtuous, and holy Life infinitely excels the most delicate Pleasures of Sin, which are but imaginary, and of a momentary duration, &c. since Wisdom's Ways are Pleasantness; and all her Paths are Peace, &c. I instructed them in the Nature and Designs of the Christian Sacrements, both Baptism and the Lord's Supper, which are two Seals of the Gospel Covenant, and that they having in so many Particulars broken their Baptismal Vows, being now to leave the stage of this World, ought to renew themselves by Repentance, for obtaining which disposition of Soul one special means was to approach Christ in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by a worthy partaking of which sacred Symbols, as the affections should be wean?d from this World, so should. they be settled upon things in Heaven, and they themselves fitted and prepared for the enjoyment of everlasting Rest, &c.

While these and many other Instructions were given them, scarce any thing of that Seriousness and Devotion, which is more especially requistite in Men in their Circumstances, upon the very brink of Eternity, appear'd, which needs not be thought strange, considering the Dissoluteness of their former Lives, having accustom'd themselves to nothing but Sensuality, so that all of them were grosly ignorant of God and Religion; neither could any of them Read or Write, excepting Hill, who was repriev'd, and they had so little frequent