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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60549	The true account of the behaviour and confessions of the condemned criminals in Newgate viz. Samuel Presby, Richard Hooker, Edward Linsy, Robert Nichols, Thomas Crompton, Mary Fisher, Thomas Gardner, Richard Jones, Katharine Brown, Matthew Morgan, Mary Collwood, Ann Davis : of which Samuel Presby, Richard Hooker, Thomas Crompton, were executed at Tyburn, and Edward Linsy on Tower-hill : as also Henry Cornish (who was executed in Cheapside) and Elizabeth Gaunt, was likewise executed October 23d, 1685, she being burnt for high-treason, at Tyburn.	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4202; ESTC R492267	6,203	4

The True ACCOUNT of the Behaviour and Confessions OF THE Condemned Criminals IN NEWGATE VIZ. Samuel Presby Richard Hooker Edward Linsy Robert Nichols Thomas Crompton Mary Fisher Thomas Gardner Richard Jones Katharine Brown Matthew Morgan Mary Collwood Ann Davis OF WHICH Samuel Presby Richard Hooker Thomas Crompton were Executed at Tyburn and Edward Linsy on Tower-hill AS ALSO Henry Cornish who was Executed in Cheapside and Elizabeth Gaunt was likewise Executed October 23d 1685. she being Burnt for HIGH-TREASON AT TYBURN AT the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery of Newgate held for the City of London and County of Middlesex at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayly the 14 15 and 16 Days of October 1685. These Persons following reeieved Sentence of Death viz. Samuel Presby Richard Hooker Edward Linsy Robert Nichols Thomas Crompton Mary Fisher Thomas Gardner Richard Jones Katharine Brown Matthew Morgan Mary Collwood Ann Davis The Ordinary earnestly Admonish'd them on the Lords day that they would redeem their mispent Time in a serious consideration for what special Sins the Lord had withdrawn his preventing Grace which he never doth till Sinners have quench'd the motions and excitations of his Holy Spirit enviting them by his Long Suffering unto Repentance Before the Ordinary began to read Prayers he advised all the Prisoners as his usual manner is to observe most Solemnly the the Lords Holy Day and to return unto him as the only rest of their Souls by seeking true Satisfaction and Delight in him and his Service from whom they wandred all the Week past by the Vanity of their Hearts and Conversations And that the Condemned Criminals in a special manner would be very Intentive on the publick Prayers of the Church and to the Sermons which should be Preach'd to them which they promised to do In the Forenoon the Ordinary Preach'd on the 21 Ver. of the fifth Chap. of St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans viz. As Sin hath reigned unto Death so hath Righteousness unto Life by Jesus Christ our Lord. From which he informed them of the deplorable Estate of all Men being virtually concerned in the Apostacy of the first Adam whose Sin was complicated with many Aggravations and that by the single Offence of this first Man being under the Covenant of Works as requiring of him personal perfect Obedience being Created after the Image of God in perfect Righteousness the least declination from his Obedience did involve most justly himself and all his Natural Posterity as being their common Representative and Trustee for them in the same State of Sin and Misery Thus his Sin reigned unto Death in all such who sin after the similitude of his Transgression Inasmuch that beside the vicious Inclination of their Nature they make his Sin become their Own by a voluntary increasing those sinful Dispositions inherent in themselves In like manner as a Vicious Off-spring do strengthen and augment an hereditary Disease by their proper and voluntary Intemperance and debauch'd Excesses Therefore it is very unreasonable and absurd to cast the blame of our personal Provocations upon any fatal Destiny in God or on the imputation of Adams first Sin to his Posterity considering that every Man entitles himself to the guilt of Adams Sin and adopts it voluntarily to become his own by treading in the same steps of Disobedience Here was declared what personal Sins became most deadly as being least capable of Gods Mercy in Pardoning of them then what are the poenal horrid consequences of such Sins they being more aggravated in their own Nature Also it was declared what are the characters by which we may discover which is that chief beloved Sin as reigning in us and will certainly prevail over us unto Death Eternal if not timely and sincerely Repented Hereupon was added many Arguments to mortifie such Sins chiefly lest they ●…eig●… unto Death Also the difference betwixt true and counterfeit mortification of Lus●s with directions how to subdue the Law of Sin that it may not prevail over us Then the Ordinary proceeded to shew the misery of all such in whom Sin reigns in the Love and Indulgence of it and that it is impossible to be set free from the Law of Sin and Death but only by the infinite Righteousness of Christs Active and Passive Obedience imputed to Sinners by Gods free Grace upon timely Repentance and a sincere Faith deriving strength from the influences of Christs Spirit for the renovation of their Hearts and universal Obedience to Gods Commandments inasmuch as true justifying Faith accepts of Christ in all his Offices in his Kingly Righteousness to rule us by his Laws and Spirit as well as to save us by his Priestly Righteousness This is the only true compleat method of Salvation because God hath sent his Son to bless us How By turning us from the love and dominion of all our Iniquities equally as in turning them from us in the damning guilt of them Thus God justifies none in an ungodly state We must first be Regenerated which contains Faith Repentance and new Obedience before we can obtain Gods actual Pardon in as much as these are the Terms and Qualifications of the Covenant of Grace to make us capable of the Benefits purchased by Christ for us so that his Kingly as well as Priestly Righteousness must reign in our Sanctification and obedience to his Laws that we may inherit Eternal Life As for that Objection That God Justifies the Ungodly it cannot be meant of such whom he finds in an Ungodly State but only of Regenerate Persons who are called Ungodly in a less degree as having still the remainders of Defilement in them which makes even them unlike to God as having ●…ot in this Life perfect Holiness and therefore Justification is not by our best inherent Righteousness which needs constant daily extending of Christs Righteousness to cover the s●ots of our holiest Services Here the Ordinary excited them to a regular Genuine Faith and Repentance that so as the Malignity and Infection of Adams Sin confirmed by their customary Excesses had reigned unto Death so the Benign efficacy of Christs Righteousness might reign more triumphantly in the infinite value and vertue of it as for our Justification so to produce in us by the Almighty Operations of his holy Spirit not only a state of Sanctification but with it all degrees of Spiritual Life in progressive Holiness till it be consummated in Eternal Glory Here those degrees of spiritual Life were enumerated and how Christs Righteousness reigns in those in a transcendent Efficacy beyond all the degrees of spiritual Death contracted by the Malignity and Defilement of the first Adam's Sin of ou● personal voluntary Pro●ocations After this the Ordinary made a * s hort Speech to the Condemned Malefactors and dismissed them with Prayer and the usual Benediction of the Church Liturgy In the Afternoon he read the solemn appointed Offices and another Sermon was preach'd to them on these Words To Day if you

will hear his Voice harden not your Hearts Which the Person who preach'd treated of very closely and pathetically So that I hope it made a good Impression on them Now I proceed to give an account of what fitness they were in for their approaching Death Katharine Brown of the Parish of Twitnam Indicted October the 4th for that being Delivered of a Bastard Child on the same Day she carryed the Child to a Brook and put it there in Choaking and Drowning it with Water It was proved the Prisoner confess'd the Child was hers and that she was Delivered thereof in a Meadow but that it was Born Dead but being no ways Credited she was brought in Guilty In this sad Instance which is too frequent its observable how Satan prevails upon Sinners by degrees first he Tempts them to Immodesty and Laciviousness in Conversation by not setting a Watch over their Hearts to prevent inward Lusting in the first Motions and Ebullitions of it then by unwary Converse with prophane Persons Tempts them from Chambering and Wantonness to comply with flagitious desires of gratifying sensual brutish Commixtures to cover and conceal the turpitude and shame of which he draws them to Murder their Illegitimate Off-spring which is a most unnatural Crime in as much as the very Sea-Monsters Suckle and Preserve their Young But common Reason depraved grows impatient of any restraint from the dictates of Nature and so exposes to the most abominable Crimes Murder especially that of the Mothers Murdering of her own Child is a most horrid Sin which cries loud to Gods Justice for the Discovery and Punishment of it The Ordinary assured her that without a sincere extraordinary Repentance the guilt and defilement of so abominable a Crime could not be expiated for she ought to have considered that she conceived the Child in a base way and therefore stood engaged to have declared her Remorse in bringing it to Christs Holy Baptism and to have acknowledged publickly her great scandalous Sin Yet she was so averse from this Ingenuity that to cover her vile Offence she offered not her Child to Baptism which is the Laver of Regeneration that so it might be dedicated to the holy Trinity but had chosen rather to devote her self Soul and Body to eternal Destruction by embrewing her Hands in the Blood of her Innocent Babe She was told how difficult it was to Repent of such a Murder when as no Sin is more hardning of the Heart it being so directly against humane Nature and renders the Murderer more stupid than any Beast That she was not to sink in Desparation yet so to aggravate her Crime as upon sincere Repentance to look up to a Crucified Jesus who prayed for those who shed his most sacred Blood which if she beg fervently of God to apply it by an unfeigned Faith the infinite Merits of it will not only atone Divine Vengeance but expiate the deep defilement of so horrid a Crime She was not able to reply any thing more to me than that she was truly sorry for so great a Sin and desired me to Pray for her that God would soften her obdurate Heart and work in her a thorow Repentance that she may not Dy in her Sin tho she might suffer a publick shameful Death for it She was ignorant in Soul concernments and could not Read therefore could give the less account of the change of her Heart Mary Fisher Mary Collwood and Ann Davis were not free to Discourse with the Ordinary concerning their present Repentance in order to their Everlasting Happiness because upon pleading they were Quick with Child and the Jury of Women bringing in their Verdict it was Truth they three Criminals were ordered to be kept in Goal till they shall be delivered in Child-bed The Ordinary told them that he had observed some Criminals in the same circumstances with them had grown more Obdurate by so long a Respit from Death perverting the Equity and Clemency of the Law that the Innocent Child shall not Perish with the guilty Mother into an occasion of greater Security and Impenitency He wish'd that their Reprieve might not produce such ill Effects in them but rather that they would consider whether their Children were Legitimate if not this was but a very Sinful Artifice to prevent a sudden Execution hoping thereby to get a Transportation But if they did not Redeem precious Time and repent sincerely of all their vicious Courses the Justice of God and Man would yet bring them to condign Punnishment and by the Abuse of longer time they would be less fit to Dy and so aggravate their Eternal Condemnation They took my Advice in good part and I shall not be wanting in my Sermons and Prayers to remind them of their Promises to improve their respit from Death to the belt advantage of their Souls Matthew Morgan Indicted for breaking up the House of Elizabeth Bell September the 18th and stealing thence 7 s. in Moneys he having little to say for himself was brought in Guilty The Ordinary endeavoured to convince him of the greatness of his Crime because he could not but offer Violence to the contrary dictates of his Conscience before he broke open the Closet-door to carry away the Goods of her who prosecuted him He confessed he had been a Sinner many ways but he was convinced now of his evil course of Life and earnestly beg'd of God that he would give him Repentance an hatred of his Sins and an obedient frame of heart unto his Laws and then hoped he should find mercy at the hand of God whether he lived or dyed Robert Nichols and Thomas Crompton were Indicted for assaulting Aug. 30. the Body of Edward Herring with a Sword giving him a mortal Wound on which the said Herring dyed Nichols pretended he did not draw his Sword himself but the Scabbard was drawn from his Sword by another But setting aside Pretences upon Evidence sufficient Nichols and Crompton were found Guilty The Ordinary told them that it was a great sin to obstruct the course of Justice in endeavouring to rescue any man arrested out of the hands of the Bayliffs that such a practice brought on fatal Effect in shedding Innocent Blood and that to Kill an Officer of Justice in the Execution of his Office was Murder They expressed much Grief for offending God in the violation of the Laws of the Nation providing against such outragious Attempts and for all other provocations of God by their evil Courses which might expose them to the committing of this Crime So that they hoped thorow Christ's meritorious death which made satisfaction to God's offended Justice that he would pardon them and wash away the defilement contracted on their Souls by shedding humane Blood though they did not maliciously design it In my next Visit of them I told them That the Heart of Man is very deceitful and that they were not to rest in much less to trust to any initial Sorrow for Sin but to