was shapen in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me. Ps. li. 5. I show'd them, that this is what we commonly call original Sin, from whence all the actual Sins of our Life do flow, this we derive from the Fall of our first Parents Adam and Eve, which Fall of theirs, corrupted them in the whole Faculties of the Soul, and in all the Members of the Body, and by consequence, all their Posterity, of whom, all of us are a Part, are by Nature wholly defiled and corrupted by Sin, so that in us dwelleth no good at all, but we are covered over with Sin as with a loathsome Leprosie, and that this Sin is in us, is evident from its bitter Fruits and Effects, for we are altogether inclined to evil, and averse to what is good; and therefore Moses in describing the Corruption of Mankind, which occasioned the general Flood of Noah, says, Every Imagination of the Thoughts of his Heart, was only Evil continually. Gen. vi. 5. This Sin is the Root of all Evil, and not being actually committed by us, we ought to pray to God, to cleanse us from it, not to impute it to our Charge, but to sanctify us wholly throughout in Soul, Body, and Spirit, that we may present ourselves unto God, as an holy, living and acceptable Sacrifice, which is our reasonable Service. Most of them suffering for the Sin of Covetousness, Theft and Robbery. I expos'd to them the great Evil of this Sin, as being against the express Law of God, Thou shalt not steal, and destructive of all humane Society, for which Reason, in well regulated Governments, the Legislature are obliged to enact capital Laws against Robbers and Thieves, as the Bane of all Society and Government.

TO one of them, Sarah Willmshurst, convicted of Murther, and that of her own Innocent Child, I represented what a grievous Crime she had committed; how that Murther in general is the most notorious Crime one can be guilty of, as being a Transgression of God's Law, Thou shalt not kill, an Encroachment upon the Prerogative of Almighty God, who is the Sovereign Lord of the Life and Death of his Creatures, and a most inhumane, cruel Action, yea, a Disgrace to the Nature of Man, who is, or at least ought to be, whatever Failure may happen in particulars, a sociable, a mild, and reasonable Creature. She was shown, what a vile, cruel and abominable Action it was, to lay violent Hands upon her own young tender Infant, calling for Pity and Compassion at her Hand, as if Whoredom and Adultery had not been a Sin great enough, unless she imbru'd her Hands in the Blood of the poor innocent Child, by cruelly and barbarously destroying the Fruit of her own Womb; this I showed her to be in effect the same with Self-murther, a Child being part of and the same with herself: The very heinous and abominable Crime of murdering their own Children, was fully exposed to her from this Text, Can a Woman 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. Is. xlxix. 15. Where