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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60551	A true account of the behaviour, confession, and last dying speeches of the 15 criminals that were executed on Monday the 22th of December, 1690	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1690 (1690)	Wing S4206B; ESTC R492261	5,660	2

A True ACCOUNT of the BEHAVIOUR CONFESSION AND Last Dying SPEECHES Of the 15 Criminals that were Executed On Monday the 22th of December 1690. THe Ordinary visited them every day after their Condemnation and on the last Lord's Day a Sermon was preached to them on this Text Deut 32.29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end Whence five things were observable 1. The Benefit and advantage of a Religious Consideration in general 2. The no less advantagious Benefit of considering our latter end in particular 3. That to consider our latter end is an Argument of our Wisdom and Understanding 4. Some Seasons and particular Occasions were instanced wherein consideration of our Latter End is more especially necessary 5. That Discourse was concluded with some Motives for the putting in practice this important Duty then a Charge given to the Condemned as follows O that you were wise that you understood this that you would consider your latter end I know you do consider it in one sense that is your minds are in continual fearful Apprehension of it but this is not that considering of your latter end which the Text exhorts to this is the minding in such sort their Deaths and Departures as to prepare and make ready for them O that I may dye the death of the righteous is the ardent Wish of every one but O that I may live the Life of the Righteous of how very few Sirs deceive not your selves there is no having your latter End like the Righteous Man but only by having your precedent Life like his What Will not you consider your latter end so as to prepare for it who have it in so near a view and Death stares you in the face and are you yet unprovided against it O certainly it is your Wisdom it is your Understanding to consider the things belonging to your everlasting Peace before they be for ever hid from your Eyes How utterly inexcusable will you be if you do not to morrow to morrow my Friends will be the latter end as to this Life O that to morrow may be the beginning of an Eternity in Blessedness unto you Take care therefore that they be in a due Qualification for Heaven and Happiness take heed that they be meer to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light and Glory This Life is the only State of Tryal and Probation there is no amending in the other World what was left defective in this Work of Conversation at our departure out of this Therefore let us now give all Diligence to make our Calling and Election sure let us work out our Salvation with a cautious Fear and Trembling lest our Contrition be imperfect and our Repentance unsincere O blessed God! is this the business you are imployed about for an endless Eternity and can you be too careful concerning it Think not a few Tears Sighs and Lord have Mercy on me to be Repentance This is not so cheap and easy a performance especially when there is a whole course of Life of wickedness to be repented of Oh no! it imports all the painful Throws and Pangs of of a second Birth of a life of Regeneration It imports a broken and contrite Heart an Hatred and Detestation of Sin as well as a Sorrow for it Sincere and stedfast Resolution of new Obedience yea an actual ceasing to do evil and learning to do well And oh may your Repentance be such may if be a repenting you more that you have offended a good and gracious God by your impieties than that these have exposed you to condign temporal Punishment O cause you new Joy in Heaven by your Repentance as you have formerly grieved quenched and offered dispight to Gods Holy Spirit by your obstinately wicked and impenitent Lives Think it not enough to say within your selves We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous for he is no Propitiation for your Sins unless you truly repent and forsake them The Redemption purchased by our Saviour and the Promises of his Gospel belong not to you if you have not the Qualifications of Redeemed ones nor the performed Conditions of the Gospel-promises viz. Truth Faith Repentance and Amendment Without Holiness there is no Happiness without beholding Gods Face in Righteousness here there is no beholding that in Glory hereafter And therefore see that you have a Divine and Holy Nature implanted in you in this Life and then departing hence meetly disposed for eternal blessedness when at the Resurrection from the Dead you awake up after Gods likeness you shall be endlesly satisfied therewith I shall proceed to give an account of the Condemned Criminals as to their former course of Life and in what frame of Heart they were for a blessed Eternity I. John Bennet alias Freeman but more notoriously known by the name of the GOLDEN FARMER condemned for the Murther of Charles Taylor and several Robberies to the value of some thousand Pounds I was with him several times in his Chamber and exhorted him to disburthen his Conscience by a free Confession of his Evil Courses yet after much Advice for his Souls Welfare and many Prayers that God would work his Heart to Repentance nothing more than what follows could be obtained That he had been a great Sinner and was guilty of most Sins That he was not so much grieved for the Shame of this condign Punishment as for offending God And that he was not solicitous to lengthen out his Life upon Earth but to get his Pardon sealed in Heaven He shed many Tears yet said That he trusted only in Christ's Righteousness for Pardon and Peace in Conscience He was exhorted chiefly to be deeply humbled for the Murther he had committed and upon reading to him David's Penitential Prayer in these Words Deliver me from Blood guiltiness O God and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness he gave some Signs of great Remorse yet I told him That his Tears could not expiate his great Provocations of God for they stood in need of cleansing by the Merit and Efficacy of Christ's Blood shed This be acknowledged Then I endeavoured to make him more sensible offering Violence to the Dictates of his own Conscience before he could so long proceed in the wicked Trade of Robbing and putting many Persons into affrightment of losing their Lives He did acknowledg this Crime whereupon I exhorted him to make Restitution to the utmost of what remained in his Hands otherwise his Repentance could not be syncere He thought this to be strange Doctrine whenas he said he dyed for robbing I told him that he paid his Life to the Justice of the Law it made no Satisfaction nor Recompence to those he had despoil'd of their Estates And added farther That he should nor conceit that his former Supplies of the Wants of the Poor was any true Charity in God's Account who abhors Robbery though it be intended for a Burnt