The execution hymn, composed on Levi Ames
Subtitle: who is to be executed for burglary, this day, the 21st of October, 1773, which was sung to him and a considerable audience, assembled at the prison, on Tuesday evening, the 19th of October, and, at the desire of the prisoner, will be sung at the place of execution, this day. : To which is annexed, The Christian exercises and dying soliloquy, or the comfortable hope and wonderful conversion of Levi Ames ...
By: By Elhanan Winchester, of Rehoboth, author of the execution hymn
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42544
Publisher: Sold by E. Russell, next the cornfield, Union-Street.
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Crime; Burglary
Other titles: Come, see the pow'r of Christ, the King.; Hearken, good people, and attend the counsel of a dying friend.
Notes: The execution hymn; first line: Come, see the pow'r of Christ, the King.

The Christian exercises and dying soliloquy; first lines: Hearken, good people, and attend the counsel of a dying friend.

Relief cut of an execution at head (Reilly 1180). Hymn in two columns on top half of sheet; the Christian exercises, in verse, in three columns below hymn.

Bristol B3678

Shipton & Mooney 42544