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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, viz. <rs type="persName" id="OA17131223_n2-1">Richard Keele</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="OA17131223_n2-2">William Lowther</rs>
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on <rs type="placeName" id="OA17131223_geo1">Clerkenwell-Green</rs>
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, and the rest at Tyburn, on <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date2">Wednesday the 23d of December, 1713</rs>
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<p n="3">AT the General Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, on <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date3">Wednesday the 9th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date4">Thursday the 10th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date5">Friday the 11th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date6">Saturday the 12th</rs>
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, and <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date7">Monday the 14th instant</rs>
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, 23 Persons (viz. 17 Men, and 6 Women) being Try'd for, and Convicted of divers Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: Of which number 10 having obtain'd the Mercy of a Reprieve, (which it highly imports them well to improve) 13 of them are now order'd for Execution. And may this be such a Warning to others, as to deterr them from following that wicked Course of Life, the End whereof is Shame, Death, and Misery.</p>
<p n="4">While all these poor Souls lay under this sad Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them brought up (twice every day) to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of GOD to them; which they seem'd devoutly to receive, and give serious Attention to: And,</p>
<p n="5">On the Lord's Day the <rs type="date" id="OA17131223_date8">13th instant</rs>
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I publickly preach'd to them, and others there present, in the Morning, upon part of the Gospel for the Day, viz. St. Mat. 11. 10. For it is written, Behold, I send my Messenger before thy Face, which shall prepare Thy Way before Thee.</p>
<p n="6">In my Opening of which Words I shew'd, First, Who was that Messenger; and Secondly, What was the End of his Message, viz. the Preaching of Repentance. A Subject seasonable at all times (especially at this) to be insisted upon: Therefore I discours'd my Auditory on this great Point, and herein observ'd these two things chiefly, viz. That there is,</p>
<p n="7"> <hi rend="brace">I. A Natural, or Legal And, II. An Evangelical<hi rend="braceResult"> Repentance.</hi>
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<p n="8">The first of which, (viz. Legal Repentance) I shew'd them, affords no true Comfort to the Sinner's Soul; but the other [Evangelical Repentance] is available to Salvation.</p>
<p n="9">Having unfolded these, and explain'd 'em in general, I then proceeded further to give a particular Account of this Evangelical Repentance, which always is accompanied with Faith, and indeed is the blessed Fruit of it, and may (in short) be thus describ'd:</p>
<p n="10">" Evangelical Saving Repentance is a very heavy and sore Displeasure, which " a Man has and feels in his Heart for his Sins, because they are Breaches of the " Laws of Heaven, and consequently heinous Offences against Almighty God, his " most Loving and merciful Father: And hereupon a wonderful and admirable " Change is wrought in his Mind, Will. Affections, and Actions, which are absolutely turn'd from bad to good, by the power of the Divine Spirit, begetting " in his Soul a perfect Hatred against Sin, and a true Love to GOD, with a sincere " Desire and fix'd Resolution for the future to order and govern his whole Life " and Conversation by the Holy Will of GOD reveal'd in His Sacred Word, making it (to that End) the main Subject of his close Study and constant Practice.</p>
<p n="11">For the obtaining of this great and precious Grace, to which Eternal Life and Salvation are annex'd, I then gave my Congregation some plain Directions. In the Afternoon I preach'd again to them, taking my Text out of the 9th Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, Ver. 27, the Words being these; - It is appointed unto Men once to die; but after this the Judgment.</p>
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