to justice.  You are already dead in the eye of the law.  Oh!  Miss, the counsels which my poor understanding gives, is spiritual; may they be more successful:  May God grant that the fate of your soul may not resemble the fate of your body!  May it not perish and die for ever!

Now, Miss, you must necessarily be in one of these two situations; you must either be innocent, by not designing to hurt your father; or you designed to kill your father, and are guilty, and conceal your guilt for private reasons.  Permit me to offer something upon each of these heads.

If it should be the case, that you are innocently the cause of Mr. Blandy’s death, which Heaven grant! if you harboured not a thought of injuring your unhappy father, you have the greatest of all comforts to support you.  You may think upon that last and awful tribunal, before which all the sons of Adam shall appear, and from which no secret is hid.  There will be no injustice.  Innocence will be vindicated.  The scheme of Providence will be then unfolded.  There your patience under your sufferings and resignation to the decrees of Heaven will be rewarded.  Your errors and failings God will pity and have mercy upon; for he remembers whereof we are made.  You may face the ignominious tree with calmness.  Death has no stings to wound innocence.  Guilt alone clothes him with terrors (to the guilty wretch he is terrible indeed!).  And at the resurrection, and at the last day, you will joyfully behold Jesus Christ your Saviour, join the triumphant multitudes of the blessed, and follow them into the everlasting mansions of glory.

The other point I am about to speak to, is upon a supposition of your guilt.  God direct me what to say!  If you repent, you will be saved.  But what repentance can be adequate to such crimes?  O Miss! your infamous end is a satisfaction due to human laws.  But there is another satisfaction which God expects to be made for such a dreadful violation of laws divine.  Once, Miss, you had two fathers to provide for and protect you; one by the ties of Nature, the other by the bonds of grace and religion.  And now your earthly parent is your accuser, and your heavenly one your judge.  Both are become your enemies.  Good God! what deep distress is this! where can misery like this find comfort and relief?  O Miss! the only anchor which can preserve your soul from perishing, is your blessed Saviour.  Believe in Him; whatsoever you ask in His name, believing, God will grant.  For to them that believe, all things are possible.  Unburthen your whole soul.  Pour out your fervent prayers to God.  Remember, that infinite mercy is glorified in the vilest sinners.  If there are any accessaries to this horrid crime, discover them.  Make all possible reparation for injuries you have done.  Heartily forgive, and pray for your enemies and more particularly for all concerned in the Prosecution against you.  Detest your sins truly, and resolve