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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dared to him; and his full recognition of
them will be observed in his own papers, where
he strongly urges their necessity, as well as
guards against the danger of deferring repent¬
ance to a late period. At the same time, those
fruits of the Holy Spirit which he had an op¬
portunity of producing, evidently appeared in
him, such as the expression of patience, humi¬
lity, and joy, together with his full confessions,
and his giving up that money which he had
an opportunity, as has been stated, of appro¬
priating to his family without detection, and
also his desire to pay his debts—in short, eve¬
ry thing in outward deportment that could be
expected in his circumstances. The manner
of his death, too, furnished proof of the reality
of his faith. It appears, therefore, that, be¬
ing renewed in the spirit of his mind, he was i
made sensible of the necessity of following
that holiness without which no man shall see
the Lord, and that they who have believed
must be careful to maintain good works. And
as far as man can judge, those who witnessed
P. Heaman’s behaviour in prison, and at his :|
departure from this world, are warranted to
conclude, that, had his life been prolonged, his
future conduct would have been as entirely