He replied, “I have no one on earth to intercede in my behalf: but I have one in the court of heaven, who hath interceeded for me, and obtained my pardon. My pardon is sealed above, and sealed with the broad seal of king Jesus; that shall abide to all eternity!――――Jesus is my friend, and he will prepare a place for me.” The two persons that were condemned for murder seeing his seriousness, and the time he spent in singing and prayer; cursed him for “Making such-a-do, about nothing,” (as they termed it) and said to him, “Why, we shall only be hanged.” “Only be hanged (says he) and is not that bad enough, to die in ones youth and vigour, such a shameful death?” They answered, “Why, we must all die, one time or other; and now is as well as another time.” “How can you (replied he) speak so carelessly about the most important thing in the world? But you forget.――――Death is not all: for after death there is a judgment and eternity! Indeed for my part I am easy; because I know I shall be happy: but I wonder you can be so easy, and your peace not made with God.――――Why you are on the brink of hell, and will be miserable for ever, if you die without repentance.” Upon their laughing at what he said, he could not forbear weeping. He then turned away and said no more; but it had such an effect upon him, that he could not sleep all night, to think what an unhappy state they were in. One of his fellow prisoners being asked, “Whether his peace was made with God, or whether he could say his sins were pardoned, as Mr. _Lee_ did?” He replied, “He hoped it was.” Mr. _Lee_ immediately said, “That is a sure sign your peace is not made with God; for, if it was, you would not only hope it was, but be sure of it; you would feel the effects of it; your soul would be warmed with love; you would love Jesus Christ, and long to be with him?” The two prisoners that died with him, asked him to eat with them. He answered, “No――What, must we eat to grow fat for the grave? Our thoughts had need to be engaged about other things, than in filling and pleasing the flesh.”――They answered, “If we think so much, it will make us mad.”――“What (said he) are you afraid of being mad by repenting of your sins? You have more need of being afraid of going to hell for the committing of them: if we had not all been mad, we had not committed those things that brought us here. And I am sure we shall be madder still, if before we have lost our bodies, we take no heed to save our souls.”――――“Ay! But (says one of them) we shall some, if not all of us, get off, for the dead warrant is not come down yet.”――――“What then (said he) if the dead warrant saves any of our bodies, it does not save our souls. We have need to be thoughtful about death, and to seek to have our peace made with God, if we escape death at ♦this time.” ♦ “his” replaced with “this” per Errata