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

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stances, Paul may plant, and Apollos water,
but God alone can give the increase. Let no
one then presume to sin because grace abounds.
All sin has a direct tendency to harden the
heart; and those who do not “ like to retain
God in their knowledge,’’ he often gives up
to a reprobate mind. “ Be ye not mockers,
lest your bands be made strong,” is a salutary
admonition to which it becomes every man to
attend.
All those evidences, which in other circum¬
stances may be required before full confidence
is placed in a profession of Christianity, could
not, it is clear, be obtained in the case of P.
Heaman. The persons who conversed with
him were fully aware of the necessity, wherever
opportunity is afforded, of bringing forth the
fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ unto the praise and glory of God; and
thus of a man’s shewing his faith by his works.
To many of those important duties that belong
to the Christian life, which the Apostles are so
earnest in inculcating on all who believe, P.
Heaman had no opportunity to attend. They
were not therefore pressed on his attention in
the way that would have been deemed indis¬
pensable, had there been place for exercising
them. Their importance was, however, de-