Crime & punishment > Life and farewell address of Peter Aug. Heaman, who was executed at Leith, on the 9th of January last, for the crimes of piracy and murder

ward him in all wisdom, in forming the plan,
and in all prudence, in the execution of it.
Such is the Gospel that was preached to P.
Heaman, and as such, it is clear that it was
equally applicable to a person of his character,
and in his circumstances, as it would have
been to the most moral and respectable of the
human race. There is no doubt a vast differ¬
ence both in respect of the guilt of their moral
conduct, and in respect of the injurious influ¬
ence of that conduct on human society. But
the Gospel is as indispensable to the salvation
of the one as it is to that of the other.
From this view of the word of God P. H. was
led to see the folly of the plan of reformation
he had commenced, but which did not, as it
never possibly could, satisfy his conscience.
A suspicion always remained that something
was still wanting to make his peace with God
-—that neither his repentance nor his reforma¬
tion was so complete as seemed to him to be re¬
quisite. But when the efficacy of the blood of
Jesus, as cleansing from all sin, was declared to
him; when he was called on to behold the Lamb
of God, and to hear his beloved Son, then
the method devised by God himself, for the
removal of the guilt of sin from his soul, and
for the purification of his heart from its love