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he was in great consternation, and lifted up his hands several times, repeating the words, "A dead man! A dead man!" several times over.
The Judge, however, was at some loss how to act and the whole court appeared to he in a strange consternation, though no body saw any thing but the man at the bar: at length the Judge said to him. ' Look you, Mr ———,' calling him by his name, 'you have but one way left, that I know of, and I'll read it to you out of the Scripture;' and so calling for a bible, he turned to the book of Joshua, and read the text. Josh. vii. 19. ' And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Isreal, and make confesion unto him; and tell now what thou hast done, hide it not from me.
Here the judge exhorted him to confess his crime; for he saw, no doubt, an evidence ready to convict him, and to discover the whole matter against him; and if he did not confess, heaven would, no doubt, send witnesses to detect him. Upon this, the self-condemned muderer burst out into tears and sad lemantations. for his own miserable condition and made a full confession of his crime; and when he had done gave the following account of his case, as to the reasons of his being under such a surprise, viz. That he saw the murdered person standing upon the step as a witness, ready to be examined against him, and ready to
