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Of these I treated largely, and concluded with proper Exhortations to the Persons that were then for Judgment.
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On the last Lord's Day, the
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, I preach'd to them again, both in the Morning and Afternoon, and my Text then was, Exod. 20. 13. Thou shalt not kill.
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Which having first explain'd in general, and illustrated by several parallel Places in Scripture, I then proceeded to shew in particular,
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I. What is Murder in strictness of Speech, and what may more largely be comprehended under it.
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II. The Punishment to be inflicted upon the Murderer, (which is Death) and the Reason for it.
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III. ult. What he ought to do, who is guilty of this, or any other Crime, that he may avoid the Eternal Condemnation due to it.
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On these I enlarg'd, and concluded all with particular Admonitions to the Persons under Sentence of Death, whom I exhorted to Faith and Repentance; teaching them what those Graces were, and how to be obtain'd. These were the two great Points I chiefly discoursed them upon, as being most proper for me to instruct them in, and them to learn and practise.
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In my private Discourses with them, they gave me the following respective Accounts of themselves.
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Richard Griffith
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, condemn'd for the Murther by him committed on the Person of
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Richard Davis
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, his Fellow-
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Servant
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, on the
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1st of February last
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. He said, he was 24 years of age, born at
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Hadley
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in Middlesex
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: That he was brought up to no Trade, but from his Youth a
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, and as such had liv'd with some Gentlemen, whom he serv'd very faithfully: That he had never indulg'd himself in any Vice, nor committed any Crime before this he now stood condemn'd for, which he own'd deserv'd Death, tho' he did it in a Passion, being (as he said) highly provok'd by the Deceased. He much lamented his woful Condition, which indeed was so much the more dismal, by how much he was unable to receive good Instruction, and joyn with me in Prayer, as being, all the time he lay under this Condemnation, extreamly ill of a malignant Fever, and under great Weakness of Body. I did what I could to raise in him a Sense of his enormous Crime, and to bring him into a State of Repentance, and I hope (by the Grace of God intervening) some Good was wrought upon him.
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Robert Evans
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, indicted for several Burglaries and Robberies by him committed within these two months past, to all which he pleaded Guilty. He said, he was 25 years of age, born in the
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Parish of St. Margaret
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: That he
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, and then went into the
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of several Gentlemen: That about a
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