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

5th March 1733

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12th December 1732


N. B. The eight Men before Mention'd, were Executed at Tyburn, on Monday the 5th of this Instant March, George Dawson< no role > , for stealing some fine Linnen out of a Shop, having been graciously Reprieved for Transportation; and Sarah Malcolm< no role > , because of the atrociousness of her Crimes, by a special Order, and for Terror to other wickedly disposed People, was appointed to be Executed in Fleet-street , at a Place nigh where her henious Crimes were committed.

While under Sentence, she enjoy'd the Benefit of the same Instructions, with the rest of her Fellow Sufferers, and she having been of the Romish Communion, tho' her Profession, considering the vast depravity of her Disposition, is to be made little account of; yet I advis'd her seriously, to rely only upon the Merits of Christ's Sufferings and Death, for Life and Salvation, seeing there is no other Name given under Heaven among Men, whereby we must be saved, but the Name of Jesus, and him crucified, as we have it Acts, iv. 12. Informing her withal, that neither her own good Works, which she could not have the least Pretence to, nor Works of Supererogation, nor any thing else which she could possibly do, could be of the least avail to justify her before God, who only can Pardon Sin which is chiefly committed against himself, and therefore I exhorted her, assiduously to employ her time at the Throne of Grace, that God who made her might have Mercy upon her, for the Sake of Jesus Christ who came to take away the Sins of the World. I instructed her also in the nature of a saving Faith in Christ, that it was not merely believing, that Christ is the Son of God and that he died for Sinners, for the Devils also believe and tremble, as saith St. James, but a believing that Christ died for me, and in applying the Merits of Christ's Death and Sufferings to my Soul, for Justification and Salvation; which Faith must be operative and productive of good Works, for Faith without Works is dead being alone, as saith the same St. James: And this Faith being the cardinal Christian Grace and Vertue, upon which all others depend, I show'd her also that it was her Duty to believe in Christ as the only Mediator between God and Man, For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, 1 Tim. 2,




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