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THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last dying Words of the Three Malefactors, Executed at Tyburn on
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Wednesday the 11th, of this Instant November, 1724
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AT the King's Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal-Delivery, &c. holden at Justice-Hall in the
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, and beginning on
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Wednesday the 14th of October last
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, (before the
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Right Honourable Sir Peter Delme
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Lord Mayor
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, &c. Mr. Baron Price; Mr. Justice Tracy; and Mr. Sergeant Raby) six Men and one Woman received Sentence of Death; but of these, four received His MAJESTY's Reprieve; and three were order'd to Suffer.
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Before their Execution, they were instructed from the following Words, Truly the Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the Eyes to behold the Sun.
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But if a Man live many Years and Rejoyce in them all; yet let him remember the Days of Darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is Vanity, Eccles. 11. 7, 8.
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Whence we took occasion to consider,
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FIRST, We consider'd the Clemency and Bounty of the Creator toward his Creatures, in affording them Light, and the Delights of Life, and requiring but their Obedience in return for his Comforts; and their Adoration, when they observe those mighty Luminaries that adorn the Skies, and relieve a Number of earth-like Globes, which are regular in their waiting upon those Lights, to give existence to their own Times and Seasons. More than a Monster, or an unnatural Birth, should we admire the Heavens the Works of Gods Hands, the Moon and the Stars which he hath appointed; and thereby be conducted to the Praise of him, who poureth his Benefits upon us.
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FARTHER, We observ'd more particularly, how far Men may indulge in the Delights that lye before 'em. That the retiring to Desarts
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