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On WednefJay Evening, the fecond Day before his
Execution, one in a Lny Habit, fuppofed to be a Ro-
mi/h Prieft, came to him and fpoke filently in his Ear,
That it twas necejpxry'for him to turn, for that there ivas
f!o Sahation out of their Church. This put him into
the greateft Agony and Perplexity imaginable, all tlie
next Night. I told him he need not be afraid to truft
his Salvation upon the Mercy of God, through the
Merits of Jefus Chrift ; and that their Way of Inltru-
ftion was to teach Men to confide in their own Merits,
and the Intercefiion of the Saints, which was an uncer-
tain Way of obtaining the Favour,,of God, and con-
trary to Scripture Revelation. He was content, and
faid he did not believe him; but that being fo near
Death, it put him in no little Confufion to hear him-
felf upbraided, as if he had liv'd in fo grofs an Error
all his Life.
This is a Freedom which thofe of our Communion
dare not take in fome neighbouring Countries.
^he following Account cf the Murder of Mr.
Ormes, was deliver'd by Francis Wood-
marfh to a Gentleman in the Prefs-Yard in
Newgate, the Morning before his Execu-
tion, in the Sight cf a great Number of
People there prefent, and hy him requefled
to he delivered to Mr. APPLEBEE, to be
publifhed to the World.
AS it is cuflomary for Perfons under my unhappy
Circumftances to declare the Truth at their lall
Moments, concerning the Faft for which they fufFer ; I
hope by this to fatisfy the World as to the real Truth,
tho' Things have been much mifreprefented, which have
done me no fmall Harm,
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