THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, &c.

AT the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery of Newgate, held before the Right Honourable Micajah Perry< no role > , Esq ; Lord-Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Lee; the Hon. Mr. Baron Parker; the Worshipful Mr. Serjeant Urlin, Deputy Recorder of the City of London, and others his Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City and County of Middlesex, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the 2d , 3d , 4th , and 5th of May, 1739 , and in the 12th Year of his Majesty's Reign.

Seven Men, viz. Abraham Nash< no role > , Richard Sedgewick< no role > , John Stevens< no role > , Richard Tobin< no role > , John Trotter< no role > , Abraham Wells< no role > and Daniel Wells< no role > , and one Woman, viz. Jane Smith< no role > , were by the Jury convicted of capital Crimes, and received Sentence of Death.

While under Sentence, they were exhorted from these Words, Wherefore I say unto thee, her Sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but to whom little is so given, the same loveth little. St. Luke 7, 47. From the Connexion of this, with the preceeding Passage, I observ'd,

1st, The best of Actions are most readily censur'd by the worst of Men: Thus we find the Host Simon, who was of the Pharisees, who were all possessed with most malicious Prejudices against Christ, and the Propagation of his Gospel, reflecting upon our blessed Lord, for allowing this Woman, who was a very gross Sinner, to stand at his Feet behind him weeping, to wash his Feet with her Tears, to wipe them with the Hairs of her Head, to kiss his Feet, and anoint them with precious Ointment. Simon did not express his Resentment in Words, he only thought in his Heart, that Christ was no Prophet, who suffered so prophane a Person to approach or touch his sacred Person; but the holy Jesus, who is in