pear before God the
Judge of all. What shall plead for them?

"Great GOD grant that all the Spectators may get Good by the horrible
Spectacle that is now before them! Let all the People hear and fear,
and let no more any such Wickedness be done as has produced this woeful
Spectacle. And let all the People beware how they go on in the ways of
Sin, and in the paths of the Destroyer, after so Solemn Warnings.

"Oh! but shall our _Sea-faring Tribe_ on this Occasion be in a Singular
manner affected with the Warnings of God! Lord, May those our dear
Bretheren be Saved from the Temptations which do so threaten them! Oh!
Let them not Abandon Themselves to Profanity, to Swearing, to Cursing,
to Drinking, to Lewdness, to a cursed Forgetfulness of their Maker, and
of the End for which He made them! Oh! Let them not be abandoned of
God unto those Courses that will hasten them to a Damnation that
slumbers not! Oh! Let the men hear the Lord exceedingly, We Pray
thee! Let the Condition of the Six or Seven men whom they now see
Dying for their Wickedness upon the Sea be Sanctified unto them...."

They then severally Spoke, Viz.

--I--_Captain John Quelch_. The last Words he spoke to one of the
Ministers at his going up the Stage were, _I am not afraid of Death. I
am not afraid of the Gallows, but I am afraid of what follows; I am
afraid of a Great God, and a Judgment to Come_. But he afterwards
seem'd to brave it out too much against that fear; also when on the
Stage first he pulled off his Hat, and bowed to the Spectators, and not
concerned, nor behaving himself so much like a Dying man as some would
have done. The Ministers had in the Way to his Execution much desired
him to Glorify God at his Death, by bearing a due Testimony against the
Sins that had ruined him, and for the ways of Religion which he had
much neglected; yet now being called upon to speak what he had to say,
it was but this much. _What I have to say is this. I desire to be
informed for what I am here. I am Condemned only upon Circumstances.
I forgive all the World. So the Lord be Merciful to my Soul_. When
_Lambert_ was Warning the Spectators to beware of Bad Company, _Quelch_
joyning _They should also take care how they brought Money into New
England, to be Hanged for it!_

--II--_John Lambert_. He appeared much hardened, and pleaded much on
his Innocency; He desired all men to beware of Bad Company; he seem'd
in a great Agony near his Execu