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A45351	A sermon preach'd at the Castle of York to the condemned prisoners on Monday the 30th of March 1691 being the day before their execution : with an appendix which gives some account of them all, but more particularly of Mr. Edmund Robinson Clerk who was condemned and executed for high treason in counterfeiting the King's coyn / by George Halley.	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1691 (1691)	Wing H455; ESTC R26651	21,825	37

been a contradiction to the Sacred Design and Holy End of its Institution he would leave something in Writing behind him as a Monument of his hearty Sorrow and Repentance for the same and that others might by him take an Example and flee such Vices as had brought him to such a shameful End This I told him was a very reasonable request and nothing but what became a sincere Penitent to do but I could not perswade him to any thing of this nature he only desir'd me that if I thought it expedient I might disclose to the World and which is the reason of this Relation what he had confessed to me and seem'd to wish heartily that what he had done and the Punishment he was like to undergo might be of such use to those of the same Function with himself and to all others as might influence them to the constant conservation of Innocency to be holy and righteous in all manner of Conversation I duly attended upon him from his Condemnation to his Death and always both before and after Divine Service exhorted him for alas I could not extort one to a thorow Confession of all his Sins and particularly of the Fact which he was to dye for but he denied it then and persisted in his Denial to the very last moment That ever Roger Preston coin'd for him 1300 l. in half a Years time as he had sworn or that ever he was Privy either to his Clipping or Coining Alas he was horribly abus'd and impos'd upon by some who for filthy Lucre's sake promis'd him and gave him the greatest Assurances of procuring him a Reprieve so strangely and unreasonably to the very moment of his going to Execution did he buoy up himself with hopes of Life upon the consideration of such Vain Promises and the Discovery he himself had made that the Powers of Religion did I 'm afraid very little operate upon him When he came indeed to the place of Execution and saw a Terrible Death stare him in the Face he was I believe under the greatest Trouble and Confusion and spoke to me more passionately than ever he had done before to pray for and with him I told him nothing would make the Sacrifice of Prayer acceptable to God but a confession of all his Sins and particularly of the Fact he dy'd for an abhorrency and detestation of them an hearty acknowledgment of the Divine Justice a cheerful resignation of himself to God and a being in Love and Charity with all the World But alas after he had taken a solemn Leave of his Son the Sheriff having immediately before his Execution acquainted him with his Reprieve and given him a Charge to be dutiful to his Mother and the like when he ascended the Ladder instead of performing the Religious Duty I press'd him to instead of imploring the Mercy and Forgiveness of God for his great and manifold Transgressions of the Laws both Humane and Divine and particularly for the Scandalous Life he had led when being under the highest Obligations to the contrary as having taken Holy Orders upon him instead of expressing an Universal Love and a Catholick Charity he did nothing but bitterly inveigh against the Law the Judge the Jury the Witness and against the Clerk of Assize for producing the Records of his former Trials against him Thus he died in the Pett thus he expir'd rather in a Tramport of Rage and Fury than with a Christian Temper and Disposition But as he liv'd so he was resolv'd to dye which shew'd a sear'd and an insensate Conscience that through the long and customary practice of Wickedness and Vice he was grown numb'd or past feeling that Darkness had vail'd his Understanding and that God had justly given him the Spirit of Slumber I 'm heartily sorry I can give no better an account nor a more comfortable relation of him though Charity commands to think the best obliges to the most candid and favourable construction I pray GOD that every one by his exemplary Punishment may be influenc'd and perswaded to follow always that which is Good so to exercise themselves as to have always a Conscience void of Offence both towards God and men and particularly all such as are called to any Ecclesiastical Office or Administration that they may take heed to do the thing which is Right that they may do all to the Glory of God to the Honour of the Christian Religion and to the Reputation of their Holy Function by constantly living a Life of Holiness and Purity In doing this they will save themselves and them that hear them Amen There were Ten Persons more executed with him Two for the same Treason who were both convicted by one and the same Witness R. P. They were Mr. Nicholas Battersby of the City of York and Robert Cokeson of Wakefield Woodside in the Parish of Wakefield in the County of York who both deny'd the Fact they were condemn'd for Cokeson indeed seemed to have some sence of God and Religion and I am confident if he were to have liv'd would have become a new man And though he absolutely to the last moment of his Life denied the Fact which Preston laid to his Charge yet he did not deny that he had been a great Clipper but who accommodated or furnished him with Money that he would never in the least declare The other Malefactors were Joanna Moat for the Murder of her Child Tho. Langhorn for the Murder of his Wife Edward Smith for Burglary Ottowell Bocking for Burglary Christopher Geldart for Cloth off the Tenters and Horse-stealing Robert Spark for Horse-stealing Chr. Jewitt for Horse-stealing John Crosland for burning a Barn All of whom except Two namely Langhorn and Bocking confessed themselves guilty of the respective Crimes they dy'd for and I hope they were penitent They particularly recommended to the numerous Spectators the strict and holy Observation of the Lord's Day for they attributed all the Mischief and Misery that befel them to the breaking of the Sabbath and told the People That when they shou'd have been at Church offering up to God the Sacrifice of Prayer and Thanksgiving when they should have been hearing the Doctrines of Religion explained and the Sins against the Laws of it reprehended they then were spending their precious Time in Rioting and Drunkenness in Chambering and Wantonness and therefore God had very justly suffer'd them to fall into the Temptation of the Devil and to come to such a shameful and ignominious End I pray God that the Great Execution at this last Assizes that their Sufferings may excite and oblige all People to the constant Practice of Justice and Honesty to a religious and strict Observance of the Lord's Day to resort to the Temple of the Lord at the Canonical hours of Prayer there to present their Bodies a Living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is their reasonable Service Amen FINIS

A SERMON Preach'd at the CASTLE of YORK TO THE CONDEMNED PRISONERS On Monday the 30th of March 1691. Being the Day before their Execution With an APPENDIX which gives some Account of them All but more particularly of Mr. Edmund Robinson Clerk who was Condemned and Executed for High Treason in counterfeiting the King 's Coyn. By GEORGE HALLEY M. A. Succentor of the Vicars Choral of the Cathedral and Rector of St. Cuthbert's in York LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard And are to be sold by Christopher Welburn Bookseller in York MDCXCI Licensed April 11. 1691. Z. Isham Deuteronomy XXXII xxix Oh that they were Wise that they understood this that they would consider their Later End THIS Chapter the Hebrews call the Summary or an Abridgment of the whole Law it is the Song of Moses which he composed for and sung to the Children of Israel before his Death He was highly sensible what a rebellious and stiff-necked People he had had the Conduct and Government of and by Divine Instinct or Inspiration foresaw their greater Rebellion after his Departure from them and the Dreadful Judgments that would fall down upon them plainly foretold that after his Death God would pour down upon them the fiercest Instances of his Anger and heavy Displeasure for their Violation of his Commandments for their Nonconformity to his Divine Laws and Prescriptions We find him therefore in the Close of the foregoing Chapter summoning the Elders of their Tribes and their Officers to whom he communicated his Prescience or Fore-knowledge of their utterly corrupting themselves after his Death and of the Evil which would befall them in the latter days for their doing Evil in the sight of the Lord for their provoking him to Anger through the work of their hands vers 27 28 29. And indeed what Moses thus foretold exactly came to pass for when they were come into the Promised Land and had received particular Command utterly to destroy all the Idolatrous Inhabitants thereof for fear they should be inveigled by them and drawn away to their Idol-Worship and those Abominable Pollutions they were infamously guilty of yet contrary to the express Command of God they executed not this Severity they destroyed not the Nations but mingled among the Heathen and learned their Works they went a whoring with their own inventions they served their Idols and sacrificed their Sons and Daughters unto Devils Thus to their Idolatry they added Blood-guiltiness of the highest degree the deepest Dye even the most barbarous and unnatural the Blood of their dearest and innocent Children These Moses told them would be such Provocations as would most justly inflame the vehement Anger and Displeasure of God as would enforce the Almighty to withdraw his Favour and Protection from them so to abhor them tho his own peculiar People that he would give them over into the hands of the Heathen and suffer such as hated them to Rule and Lord it over them All this Moses faithfully represented to the Elders of their Tribes and to their Officers but withal prescribed them an effectual way to Peace and Reconciliation with their God to render him propitious and favourable to them and that was a turning unto him with true and faithful Repentance This he told them would be the only way to oblige the Lord to Pity and Commiseration If they sincerely repented their sins then tho of so high and provoking a Nature would be blotted out and the times of refreshing would come God then would hear their Complaint God then would make his Arrows drunk with their Enemies Blood vers 42. and Crown them his People with Victory and good Success But alass Moses had fearful Apprehensions of their Obdurateness and Impenitency of their Blindness and Stupidity that they would lose all their true Judgment that for want of understanding they would despise his wholsom Counsels and Instruction therefore he very pathetically and Affectionately prays for them in the Words of my Text Oh that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end From which Words I will endeavour to shew you I. What it is to consider II. The Benefit of Consideration III. What is meant by the latter End the Object of Consideration IV. The great Advantage of considering the latter End V. That to consider our latter End is an Argument of our Wisdom and Understanding VI. I shall make a particular Application and then a'done Oh that they were wise c. But First In the first place What it is to consider And here to consider is to make a proper Use of the rational Faculty which God hath implanted in every one of us to exercise the several Capacities of the Soul to reflect upon our selves to measure our Motions our Actions by the Standard of Reason Whoever through a manly and serious Application of his Mind takes a just and an impartial View of himself of all such things as relate to and concern him and accordingly governs his Will and Affections determins his Behaviour and Deportment such an one is a considerative Man When a Man suffers not his Passions to tumultuate and ferment into a Storm nor himself to be carried away with Exorbitant Lusts but embraces in his Mind the whole Nature Tendency and all the Circumstances of things when he weighs them in the Scale of Reason and diligently examins carefully observes which way the Scale turns and proportions his Course his Actions to such a diligent Observance and careful Examination such a Man is a wise and serious a thinking and considerative Person And this it is in short to consider which brings me to the second observable namely The Benefit of consideration It is a great Art and an Excellence in Man to know how to think how to consider it is a thing that requires some time for its Accomplishment and Perfection some Pains some Industry for its Acquisition and whoever would but take the Pains will but be at the expence of some Labour to seek it will certainly find it and when he hath found it nothing will be more useful and necessary more beneficial and Advantagious to him nothing will more avail to the good Conduct and well-government of his Life and Conversation For then he will be able to look into the Nature of Humane Actions to weigh well the Causes and compare the Consequence of things and to exercise that Sense and Reason which God hath plentifully enrich'd and endow'd him with And what can better contribute to his Peace and Happiness to his Security and Preservation If he communeth but with his own Heart and acts according to the Illumination of his Understanding to the Dictates of Reason and Convictions of Conscience if he seriously revolves in his Mind the Reward of Vertue and the Danger of Vice in all probability he will stand in Awe and not sin he will have a care of affronting his God by wickedness and impiety and this