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<p n="2">The ORDINARY of NEWGATE his Account of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at TYBURN, on <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date2">FRIDAY the 15th day of SEPTEMBER, 1710</rs>
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<p n="3">AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date3">Wednesday the 6th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date4">Thursday the 7th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date5">Friday the 8th</rs>
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, and <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date6">Saturday the 9th Instant</rs>
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, Eight Persons, that were then try'd for several Capital Crimes, and found respectively Guilty of them, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: Six of them having obtain'd a gracious Reprieve (which it greatly concerns them to improve to the Glory of God) the other Two only are now order'd for Execution.</p>
<p n="4">All the time they lay under this Condemnation, I visited them constantly, and had them brought up to the Chapel of Newgate twice every day. There I pray'd with them and taught them the Word of God; explaining those Portions of it that were then read to them, and drawing from thence such Inferences, as I thought most proper to bring them to Repentance.</p>
<p n="5">And on the Lord's Day the <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date7">10th Instant</rs>
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, I preach'd to them, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon 2 Pet. 3. 9. The Lord is not Slack concerning his Promise (as some Men count Slackness) but is Long-suffering to us-ward; not willing that any should Perish, but that all should come to Repentance.</p>
<p n="6">Which Words I first explicated in general; and then proceeded in particular to shew, That they contain or imply these Two Points.</p>
<p n="7">I. The Destruction of Jerusalem and of the People of the Jews; which came to pass 40 years after Christ's Prediction of it (Mat. 24 chap.) for their Impiety and Unbelief.</p>
<p n="8">II. The general Destruction and Judgment of the whole World; for which (as St. Paul told the Athenians, Acts 17.31) God has appointed a Day; which Day is certain, though unknown to us.</p>
<p n="9">From which two Points I raised this Proposition, viz.</p>
<p n="10">[That as sure as CHRIST JESUS (by the Hands of the Romans) destroy'd the Jews, as they were a People, and by that mean severely Punish'd them for their Incredulity and Hardness of Heart; so sure it is, That every individual Person shall hereafter (both in Body and Soul) stand before the Judgment-Seat of CHRIST; and there receive his Sentence, either of Absolution or Condemnation; according to what he shall be found to have done, whether it be good or bad; as the Apostle declares, 2 Cor. 5. 10.]</p>
<p n="11">And then, for a farther Explanation of the Text, I made these Observations from it; viz.</p>
<p n="12">I. That the LORD, who has promised and declared, That He will come one Day to judge the World; and, That He will receive the Good and Penitent to Himself, and destroy the Wicked and Impenitent, is able to make good this his Promise, to the uttermost.</p>
<p n="13">II. That He, who has thus promised and declar'd, and can make it good, is yet Long suffering to us-ward: He is pleas'd to bear with us, and forbear us for a time, (yea, a long time too) in that He does not (as He justly might) hastily bring this his final Judgment upon us: Thus dealing patiently with us, in Mercy; tho' [1st] His own Honour seems to suffer by it, from the Ungodly Speeches of Prophane Scoffers; and from the Impious Lives of Wicked Men: And tho' [2dly] They, or any of us, yea, the very best of Men, deserve no such Favour: And tho' [3dly] Our Happiness can be no real Addition of Glory to Him.</p>
<p n="14">III. That one great Reason why the Lord dispenses such Mercy of Long-suffering to us-ward, is, That None of us might perish.</p>
<p n="15">IV. and Lastly, That the Mean to prevent this final Perishing (tho' not that Judgment) is REPENTANCE.</p>
<p n="16">I enlarg'd upon all these; and concluded, at both times, with a particular Application, and suitable Exhortations to the Persons condemn'd, who seem'd to be pretty attentive to what was then deliver'd.</p>
<p n="17">As I taught them in publick, so I discours'd them also in private; where (as being more agreeable to their present Temper, and therefore more apt to work upon 'em) I expos'd to 'em the Heinousness of their respective Crimes, endeavouring to make them sensible, and truly penitent, of them.</p>
<p n="18">The Disposition which the Two Persons, who are now to die, seem'd then to be in, the Reader may collect from what they respectively declar'd to me; which is, in Substance, as follows, viz.</p>
<p n="19">I. <rs type="persName" id="OA17100915_n19-1">Jane Forest</rs>
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, condemn'd for Murthering her Male Bastard-Child, on the <rs type="date" id="OA17100915_date8">2d day of August last</rs>
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. She said, She was about 40 Years of age, born at a Place call'd <rs type="placeName" id="OA17100915_geo1"> <rs type="placeName" id="OA17100915_geo2">Links, seven Miles beyond Edenburgh</rs>
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in Scotland</rs>
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; That she had liv'd above 20 Years in or about <rs type="placeName" id="OA17100915_geo3">London</rs>
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, and for the most part of that time been imploy'd in <rs type="occupation" id="OA17100915_occ1">spinning Flax</rs>
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, to make Sail-cloth for HER MAJESTY's Ships; and, That tho' she had thereby got an honest Livelihood, yet she could not but own, that she had not been honest in every respect; for at the same time she denied the Murther of her Child, saying, that he was still-born, she confess'd, That she was guilty of the odious Sin of Whoredom; to cover the Shame of which, she did not call any body to her help when in Travail, but endeavour'd to conceal the matter; and so, some few hours after the Child was born, she took an Opportunity to carry him into the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17100915_geo4">Fields beyond Rosemary-lane</rs>
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, and there laid him upon the green Grass. She was a poor ignorant Woman, could not read, and knew very little in Religion; but seem'd to be very desi</p>
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