said City and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Thursday and Friday, the 30th and 31st of May , and Saturday the 1st of June , in the Seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Five Men, viz. Thomas Taverner< no role > , alias Cotton< no role > , Joseph Hart< no role > , Samuel Walker< no role > , William Ray< no role > and Roger Bow< no role > , were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Offences, and received Sentence of Death accordingly.

When under Sentence, I exhorted them seriously to repent of all their Sins; and that their Repentance might be sincere, I instructed them, That firm Resolutions of New Obedience were necessary; and that if they resolved to amend their Lives, and become good, they must not except any Duties, for God excepts none; nor reserve to themselves an Allowance of any Sins; for God forbids, and most severely punishes all sorts of Sin. An holy Resolution must know no other Limits but our Duty, and extend to every thing which God has required of us. And this compass of religious Purpose, the Commandment expresly calls for, when we are enjoined to love God with all our Hearts, Luke x. 27. For if we keep a secret Reserve for any Sin, our Heart is given but by halves to God, and is not whole with him. Jehu walk'd not in the Law of God with all his Heart, says the Scripture; and the Proof is given, because he had a Reserve in one Point, and departed not from the Sins of Jereboam, 2 Kings, x. 31. but David says God, followed me with all his Heart, which appeared, because he did that only which was right in mine Eyes, 1 King, xiv. 18. And what is said in this case, the Psalmist expresses more universally of all others, they seek the Lord with their whole Heart, who do no Iniquity, Psalm cxix. 1, 2.

Thus I shew'd them, that their penitential Purposes must be full and intire with God, not sticking at any thing he has enjoined, nor allowing of any thing his Law forbids us: And therefore those Resolvers must not think they have finish'd, but only begun the Work, who have not renounced all, but only the greatest Part, and still reserve themselves a Liberty for some particular Sins, which are deeprooted in their natural Tempers, or closely interwoven with their way of Life and Business; yea, or for some particular times, and Acts of any Sin, resolving against it in all