BEING under the awful App [...]ehension [...] of my Execution now in a few Hours; and being desirous to do all the Good I can, before I enter the Eternal Worl [...], I now in the fear of GOD, give this Declaration and Warning to the Living.

I Was very tenderly brought up, and well In­struct [...]d in my Father's House, till I was Twelve Years of Age; but alass, my Child­hood [...] off in vanity. However, as I grew in Years, my Youth was under very sensible Impressions from the SPIRIT of GOD; and I was awakened to seek and obtain Baptism, when I was about Sixteen Years of Age; and lived for some time with a strictness somewhat a [...]swerable to the Obligations I was thereby brought under. But within two or three Years after this, I was led away i [...] to the Sin of Un­cleannes [...], from which ti [...]e I think I may d [...]te my Ruin for this World. After this▪ I became again more watchful, and for several Years kep [...] my self from the like Pollution [...], until those [...] which I am now to suffer.

And as it [...] be necessary, so do [...]btless it will be expected of me, that I give the Wo [...]ld [...] particular account of that great Sin, with the aggravations of it, which has brought me to this Shameful Death: And accordingly in the fear of GOD, at whose awful Tribunal I am immediately to appear, I solemnly declare as follows▪

That on Saturday the Fifth Day of May last, being then something more than Eight Months gon [...] with Child, as I was about my Houshold Business reaching some San [...] from out of a large Ca [...]k, I received considerable hurt, which put me into great Pain, and so I conti­nued till the Tuesday following; in all which time I am not sensible I [...]elt any Life or Motion in the Child within me; when, [...] the [...] Tuesday the Eighth Day of May, I was D [...]li­ver'd when alo [...]e of a Male Infa [...]t; in whom I did not p [...]rceive Life; but [...]ill uncertain of Life [...]n [...]t, I threw it into the Vault about two or three Minutes after it was born; [...], I say, whether it was a living or dead Child▪ tho, I confess [...] probable there was Life in it, and some Circum [...]ances seem to [...] it. I therefore own the Ju [...]tice of GOD and [...] in my Condemnation, and take Shame to my self, as I have none but my self to Blame▪ and am so [...]ry for any rash Expressions I have at any time uttered since my Condem [...]ation; and I am verily pe [...]swaded there is no Place [...]n the World, where there is a more st [...]ict [...]egard to Justice than in this Province.

And now as a Sou [...] going into Etern [...], I most earnestly and solemnly Warn all [...], particularly YOUNG PEOPLE, and more especially those of my own Sex, [...] the Sins which their Age peculiarly [...] them to; and as the Sin of Uncleanness has brought me [...]nto these distressing Circumstances, I would with the greatest Importunity C [...]tion and Warn against it, being p [...]rswaded of the [...] of that Sin in this Town and Land. I tho [...]ht my self as secure, a little more than a Year ago, as many of you now do; but by woful Expe­rience I have found, that Lust when it has con­ceived bri [...]geth forth Sin, and Sin when it is [...]nished bringet [...] forth Death; it exposes the Soul not only to Temporal, but to Eternal Death. And therefore as a Dying Person▪ let me call upon you to forsake the foolish and live: Do not accompany with those you know to be such▪ and if Sinners en [...]ice you do not cons [...]nt. I am sensible there are many Houses in this Town, that may be called Houses of Uncleanness, and Places of dreadful Temptations to this and all other Sins. O shun them, for they lead down to the Chambers of Death and Eternal Misery.

My misp [...]ce of [...] as a heavy burden upon me; that when I might have gone to the House of GOD, I have been [...], and suffer'd a small matter to keep me from i [...] ▪ What would I now give, had I better improv'd the Lord' [...] Day! I tell you, ve [...]ly, your [...] Sabbath [...] will sit heavy upon you, when you come into the near prospect of Death and Eternity.

The Sin of Lying I have to bewail, and wou'd earnestly caution against; not that I have took so great a pleasure in Lying; but I have often done so to conceal my Sin: Certainly you had be [...]er suffer Shame and Disgrace, yea the great­est Punishment, than to hide and conceal your Sin, by Lying. How much better had it been for me, to have confess'd my Sin, than by h [...]d­in [...] of it to provoke a holy GOD, thus to suffer it to find me out. But I hope I heartily desire to bless GOD, that even in this way, He is th [...] entring into Judgment with me; for I have often thought, had I been let alone to go on undiscovered in my Sins, I might have provok'd [...] in to leave me to a [...] of Rebellion, that would have [...] me for a more sudden, and everlasting Destruction; and am fully convinc'd of this, that I should have had no solid [...]ase or quiet in my mind, but the Guilt of this [...]ndis­ [...]over'd Sin lying upon my Conscience, would have been a [...] Rack unto me all my Days; where [...]s [...]ow I hope GOD has discover'd to me in some measure the evil of this, and all my othe [...] enabled me to repent of them in [...] and [...] ▪ and made me earne [...]tly desi [...]e and plead with [...] for pardon and clea [...]sing in the p [...]eci [...]us Blood of the REDEEMER of lo [...] and perishing [...]: And [...] think I can [...], I have had mo [...]e comfort and sat [...]faction within the Wall [...] of this Prison, than ever I ha [...] in the wa [...]s of Sin among my vain Com­pa [...]ion [...], and think I wou [...]d not for a World, nay for ten Thousand Worlds have my liberty in Sin again, and be in the same Condition I was in before I came into this Place.

I had [...] advantage of living in several reli­giou [...] Fam [...]lies; but alass, I disregarded the In­structions and War [...]ings I there had, which is now a bitterness to me; and so it will be to those of you who are thus fa [...]oured, but go on unmindful of GOD, and deaf to all the Re­proofs and Admonitions that are given you for the good of your Souls. And I would advise those of my own Sex especially, to chuse to go into religious Families, where the Worship and Fear of GOD is ma [...]tained, and submit your selves to the Orde [...] and Government of them.

In my younger Years I maintain'd a constant cou [...]se of Secret Pray [...] for some time; but after­wards neglecting the [...]ame, I found by experience, that upon my thus leaving GOD, He was provoked to [...] me, and at length suffer'd me to fall into that great and [...] Si [...] that has brought me to thi [...] Death: Mind me, I first l [...]ft GOD, and then He [...] me: I therefore so­l [...]mnly call upon YOUNG PEOPLE to cherish the Convictio [...]s of GOD's Holy SPIRIT, and be sure keep up a consta [...]t course of fervent Se­cret Prayer.

And now I am just entring [...]nto the Eternal World, I do in the fear of GOD, and before Witnesses, call upon our YOUNG PEOPLE in particular, to secure an Interest in the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and in those precio [...] Bene­fits He has purchased for His People; for sure­ly the [...]avour of GOD, thro' CHRIST, is more worth than a whole World: And O what Com­ [...]ort will this yield you when you c [...]me to that awful Day and Hour I am now arriving unto. I must tell you the World appears to me vain and empty, nothing like what it did in my pa [...]t Life, my Days of Sin and Vanity, and as doubt­less it appears now to you. Will you be per­swaded by me to that which will yield you the best Satisfaction a [...]d Pleasure here, and which will prepare you for the more abundant Plea­su [...]es of GOD's Right Hand for evermore.