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THE Ordinary of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Dying Words of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn, on
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Friday the 4th of May, 1722
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AT the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on the 4
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&c. of April last past
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, were found Guilty of Capital Offences seven Men and two Women, viz. T. Reeves, J. Hartley, J. Timms, J. Thompson, J. Hoopes, J. Broom, J. Edwards, and
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Jane Bean
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, and
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Alice Phenix
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. Five of these Receiving His Majesty's Pardon, on condition of being Transported to America; The remaining 4 were ordered for Execution.
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Of the several Texts of Scripture, which I endeavoured to illustrate to them, (during the Month that they lay under Sentence of Death) the last was, Job the 19. Verse, 25, and 26.
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I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter Day upon the Earth and tho' after my Skin Worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh shall I see God.
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The Words directs us to Consider,
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FIRST, Job's assurance, that Christ was then alive; he being coexistant with God the Father, and assisting God in the Creation of the World, for his sake they are, and were created. Nor could the Bars of Death retain him (as the Psalmist prophesied) after he suffered upon Earth, tho' the Soldiers guarded the Tomb, and the Magistrate affixed his Seal.
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SECONDLY, Job's assurance, That Christ would return at the latter Day to the Earth, engirt with Thousands and ten Thousands of
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