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A60547 The behaviour of Edward Kirk after his condemnation for murdering his wife with the advice and prayers which he left with the ordinary, desiring him to publish the same for the reclaiming of vicious youth : together vvith the behaviour of the other condemned malefactors in Newgate. Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698. 1684 (1684) Wing S4198; ESTC R10200 4,314 4

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may ascend up into Heaven to God on High so that he that shed his Precious Blood for Sinners if it be his Blessed Will may make my Peace with God Of all my Sins that I have Committed there is none so sad and Horrible as the Sin of Murder is therefore I Beseech thee O Lord to blot out that loud crying Sin from before thy Presence so that it may not rise up in Judgment against me when I come before thy Tribunal-Seat on High Oh! that men would consider this in time that Sin will one Day change their Countenance however it cometh in a flattering form pretending nothing but Friendship but in the end will leave a Sting behind it even a guilty Conscience Terror of Mind and anguish of Spirit wherefore let us flye from Sin as from the biting of a Serpent that we be not stung to Death knowing that the ways of Sin is Death O Lord most Holy Good and Gracious Everlasting and Blessed Lord God how Glorious art thou Lord thou art a great and a Merciful God and thou hast done more for me a thousand times than I have deserved I confess I have been a great Sinner I have done those things which I should not have done and I have left undone those things which I should have done Lord help me and strengthen my Faith every Minute more and more those few Minutes that I have to live in this World that when I am departed hence through the merits of Jesus Christ I may ascend into a Heavenly Kingdom Amen Edward Kirk acknowledged that he was at the Execution of John Gower a Coach-maker who for Murdering his Wife was Executed at Tyburn on the 23d of May last 1684. And that after Kirk returned from Tyburn Satan suggested him to Murder his own Wife within one hour after That he Prayed against the Temptation yet not so fervently as he ought The Instigation came with Violence upon him about six a Clock on the Lords Day in the Morning being the 25th of May 1684. That he then contrived how to draw her out in the After-noon to walk with him into the Fields That when he got her out he sometimes went before her and called to her to walk faster after him and when they were near Paddington he told the Ordinary that he pretended some excuse into a Gravel-Pit which was within two Fields of Tyburn That he asked his Wife to give him her Hand which she did and so led her into the Gravel Pit That when she was there he Quarreled with her and Bruised her Face and Head with a Cane that she begged him to spare her but he drew out a Knife to cut her Throat which he attempting to do she Strugled with him using these Words Lord have Mercy on my Soul Was ever Woman so barbarously Murdered After he had cut her Throat and returned home he endeavoured as much as he could to compose his Countenance and go about his Business and so order his Behaviour that nothing more than ordinary might appear in his Looks to give suspition that he had been about any un-Lawful much less so Horrid a Fact He told the Ordinary that he would at his Tryal Plead Guilty and beg God and the Kings Mercy yet against his Resolution he denied the Fact till it was proved upon him by his own Confession before his Tryal Notwithstanding he used many false Stories to evade the Proof of the Fact as appears in the account of his Tryal Since his Condemnation to Death he hath plainly Bewailed his great prevarication and false asseverationtos the Court of Judicature hoping that by Repentance and through a true lively Faith in the Meritorious satisfaction of Christs Blood-shed His Horrid Murder and the denial of it so Impudently in the Court of Justice will be pardoned by God to him And the Ordinary doth hope that upon narrow search into the frame of his Heart that Edward Kirk had some Ground to Expect a happy Eternity for he said that his Sin was so great that he deserved to Dye and desired not to Live Andrew Hill Aged 21 Years acknowledged to the Ordinary in conference that he had spent his time very Idly and lived a very disorderly Life often quenching the motions of the Holy Spirit and warns all Young-Men to mind their Honest Imployments and not to seek out nor mix with Lewd Company least they come to an untimely Death Morgan Reading Condemned for a Burglary was very sensible of his Sinful course of Life and grieved that he had commited several Impieties against clear and strong Convictions in Conscience to the Contrary Another of the Condemned Persons being a Lusty and Comely Person of the Age of Four and twenty Years is very Penitent and much bewailed his mispence of Precious Time neglecting the publick Assemblies on the Lords Day and the duty of Prayer whereby he fell under the Temptations of Satan and bad Company so that he commited many Excesses such as he desires all Young-Men to refrain from particularly to bridle their Tongues from Cursing and Swearing or useing any other Intemperance for God in due time will discover all who persist in Impenitency Dated on Thursday the 10th Day of July 1684. Samuel Smith Ordinary of Newgate London Printed by Geo. Croom in Thdmes-street over against Baynard's Castle 1684.