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THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on
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Wednesday the 10th of March, 1713/1714
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AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-baily, London, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the
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25th
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, and
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27th of February last
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, Fifteen Persons, viz. Fourteen Men, and One Woman, who were all Try'd for, and brought in Guilty of several Capital Crimes, did receive Sentence of Death accordingly. But the Woman being found pregnant, and Two of the Men having obtain'd the QUEEN's most gracious Reprieve (which I pray GOD they may have Grace duely to improve) Twelve of them are now order'd for Execution.
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While they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and had them (twice every day) brought up to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, and read and expounded the Word of God to them; instructing them in the Duties of the Christian Religion, and endeavouring to perswade them to the sincere Practice of them, from the weighty Considerations, first, of God's severe Judgments to obstinate and harden'd Sinners; and, secondly, of his boundless Mercy to them that truly repent.
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On the Lord's Day, the
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28th of February last
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, I preach'd to them (and others there present, who were many) on Ephes. 5. 1, 2. being part, both of the Epistle appointed for the Day, and of the 2d Lesson for that Evening-Service, and the Words these, Be ye Followers of God, as dear Children; and walk in Love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us, an Offering and a Sacrifice to God, for a sweet-smelling Savour.
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These Words I first explain'd in general; shewing that they contain,
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I. The plain Matter of our Christian Duty. And,
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II. The true Ground of our Christian Hope.
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Which I then made out, by speaking to the several Points following, viz.
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1st, Who it is we are to imitate, i. e. GOD; which the Apostle shews in these first Words of the Text, Be ye Followers of God.
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2dly, Wherefore we ought to imitate Him; and that is, because we are his Children; yea, his dear Children.
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3dly, Wherein we should imitate God, viz. in Love; for, says the Text, Walk in Love. Which includes Kindness in Giving, Mercy in Forgiving, Holiness in our Lives and Conversations, and Sincerity in our Endeavours to discharge all Religious and Christian Duties.
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