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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60550	The true account of the behaviour and confession of the criminals, condemned on Thursday the 15th day of April, 1686 at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly viz. Peter Lary, John Toy, Elizabeth Churchill, John Crofts, John Steers, and Rebeckah Rose, of which Peter Lary was this present Wednesday the 21st of April, executed at Tyburn, and the other five repriev'd.	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1686 (1686)	Wing S4205; ESTC R492265	5,968	4

THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND CONFESSION of the Criminals Condemned on Thursday the 15th day of April 1686. At JVSTICE-HALL in the OLD-BAYLY Viz. Peter Lary John Toy Elizabeth Churchill John Crofts John Steers and Rebeckah Rose of which Peter Lary was this present Wednesday the 21st of April Executed at TYBURN And the other five Repriev'd THe Ordinary first undertook this service to the Community of publishing the Account of the Behaviour and Confessions of the Condemned Criminals in Newgate that no persons might be imposed upon by others who presumed to Print false Reports concerning them Now whereas some of late have expected that an Account should be given of Confessions to be made at Tyburn This the Ordinary hath endeavoured to bring the dying Malefactors unto but they are somwhat Averse to it there because they cannot be well heard by reason of the Noise of the People besides the Consternation which is upon them being ready to be Executed makes them say little but only thus Take warning not to come to this Fatal Place to which we are brought by the neglect of our Duty to God and Man and usually desire only that the Ordinary would pray with them and that they may do the like for themselves This Account therefore he now gives that on Friday which was the next Day after the Sentence of Death passed upon the aforesaid Criminals he visited them and after he had prayed with them earnestly exhorted them that they would beg of God to make them sensible of their several Crimes that they would look back on the whole course of their Life in asmuch as the just God never leaves Sinners destitute of his preventing Grace till they first harden their own Hearts indulging themselves in some secret Sins thereby strength'ning vicious inclinations to a considerable degree of Atheism because they are not some time discovered and brought to shame He told them that they ought having given Notorious Scandals to make their penitential acknowledgments as publick for the warning of others by their Example of suffering Justice to avoid the same Crimes And that tho' they had quench'd the motions of God's Holy Spirit and resisted the Convictions of their Conscience formerly yet now by this Fatal Stroke drawn upon themselves He loudly calls them to Repentance that so they may escape the Wrath which is to come Upon this they began to be awakened from their Security in an Evil State and to lament their former flagitious Courses which Relenting the Ordinary Encouraged yet advised them not to rely on any slight sorrow for Sin as if this were any satisfaction to God for all the Exorbitances of their Conversations Here he stated the differences betwixt True and False Repentance and the Nature of True Faith in coming to God for Reconciliation by Christ to which they were very attentive On Saturday I visited them again and told them that I expected a further Account from them of their fitness to Dye than what I had already received I enquired what Frame and Disposition of Heart they were in at present Whither they retained those good impressions which were upon them the day before The replyed That they did Then asking them what Hope they had that God was reconciled to them in Christ they replyed That they Prayed and did what they could to obtain the Pardon of their Sins and that they might be saved I assured them that if they were willing to be happy on God's Terms viz. If they desired sincerely to be Holy as much as to be Happy then Christ's sanctifying Spirit would become their Comforter Then I Exhorted them to prepare for the Duties of the Lords Day because it was likely to be the last Sabbath they would spend upon Earth After this they were desirous that I would pray with them again which I did and they promised me that they would take pains with their own hearts in my Absence to fit themselves for a future happy State I told them that they ought to assist one another to the utmost in Order thereunto considering how by their bad Counsel and Example they had misled others into sinful Practices and so dismist them On the Lords Day the Ordinary Preached on this Text the 26 Chap. of St. Matthew the 40 Verse Watch and Pray that ye enter not into Temptation These Words were Christ's Advice to his Disciples when he found them heavy a sleep in the midst of his Agonies in the Night immediately foregoing his being Apprehended to be Crucified He Alarumed them from their Security by enjoyning them to Watch and Pray as being most forcible in Conjunction If we Pray not we disarm our selves Satan gets an advantage of our sloath If we Watch not in Praying and after it to maintain a spiritual Frame we make our Prayer fruitless and ineffectual Prayer keeps us watching and this makes Prayer available 1st We have need to Watch in Praying and to Pray in Watching because Temptations alway await us in our Christian Station 2ly It is very dangerous through carelesness of our Duty to expose our selves to the least approach of a Temptation lest ye enter 3ly Such who Watch and Pray with a due frame of heart shall ordinarily be kept out of Temptation or not left in it to themselves If they enter into it they shall not fall under the Power of it Totally and Finally 4ly Pray lest ye my Disciples Enter into Temptation Observe the best of Men cannot promise themselves to be free and exempt from Satans Stratagems or Assaults These are the Tryals of Sincerity the Exercise and strengthening of real Grace The Christians Alarum against Security otherwise we should be good by Necessity rather than Choice If we did not strive for Victory against Sin Satan and the World 5ly Christians must Watch and Pray especially against such Temptations which most beset their present State and Condition of Life or at the approach of Death 6ly Tho' the Lord over-rules Temptations to a good Issue in the Godly yet they are not to expose themselves by security in any expectation of that good which comes by Accident Temporal Victories are got by Fighting but Spiritual by flying the occasion of sinning God is not bound to Aid us in those Temptations which we thrust our selves upon After these Observations raised from the Text the Ordinary proceeded to shew wherein the Nature of true watchfulness consists and in what Respects Prayer in Conjunction contributes to the declining or defeatment of Temptations Then he described some Symptoms in persons lyable to enter upon the Borders of Temptations and some means in the use of which they might be avoided or the effect and prevalencys of them much broken and abated Also he gave some Directions how to get out of the Snare of Satans Temptation when taken therein And assigned some Considerations whereby the several Temptations of Discouragement or Presumption in the approaches of Death may be over-come Lastly he Addressed himself to the condemned