exemplary Punishments, rather than endure an Eternity of Misery hereafter.

'Twas urg'd to them, how much it was their Duty, to cry unto the Lord, Day and Night, for Forgiveness of their manifold Sins and Wickedness; to that God who is a Merciful God, and will as has been promised in the Holy Scriptures: When the Wicked Man turneth away from the Wickedness that he hath committed, and doth that which is Lawful and Right, shall save his Soul alive; for if we seek God in Sincerity, he will surely be found, and however great and many our Offences have been, yet there is infinite Mercy with God to forgive them. They were all exhorted from these and the like Words, to be sincere and penitent.

Elizabeth Bennett< no role > This name instance is in set 8374396. , having been guilty of the most heinous Crime of Murder, the dreadful Nature and Consequence of that Sin, was more particularly expatiated upon, that she might be brought to a due Sense thereof; the Barbarity, Cruelty and Inhumanity of it was exposed, it being a Crime against the express Commandments of God, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt do no Murder, Whosoever sheddeth Man's Blood, by Man shall his Blood be shed, GEN. 9, 6 As God made Man after his own Image, how presumptious! how daring! is it in Man to destroy the Image of the True and Living God, and yet expect to pass unpunish'd; 'twas likewise explained to her that if there could be an Aggravation of that heinous Crime of Murder, 'twas in her Case, to murder in so cruel and barbarous a Manner, her own innocent Child.

A Crime of such a Nature, that the Lord, by the Mouth of his holy Prophet, Isaiah, proposeth as a Singular Care, as if it were impossible such a Thing could happen, " Can a " Woman (says he) forget her Sucking Child? That she should not have Compassion on the Son of her Womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold I have graven thee upon the Palms of my Hands, thy Walls are continually before me. Isa. 49, 15, 16.

In her appear'd a Brutallity and Savageness of Mind, contrary to the Nature of the tender Sex, who are known to be more fond, more sympathizing and more compassionate, towards their innocent Babes, than are the Men. But she, more savage than the Brutes, suffocated her Infant, the Instant it was brought into the Light of the World.

They were instructed in the Nature and End of the Sacrament of our Lord's last Supper, from these Texts, " And they continued stedfastly in