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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doth he lead me to his holy hill, for he has ■<
brought me here, to a Christian country, to see t
and acknowledge my transgressions. Hath he :
any pleasure in the death of the wicked ? No ! l!
or I should not have been here; for his sword
of vengeance could have reached me when this
great sin was committed; therefore he hath 1
led me with his staff home as a lost sheep. I
have strayed from him, but he hath found
me; therefore rejoice with me, for that which
was lost is found, Luke xv. 6. And though I
am shut up here in a cell, as a reproach to
mankind, yet may I rejoice that he hath led
me from darkness to light.
I have been an exceeding great sinner, for
I have broke all the ten commandments, and
if there had been ten more to break, possibly
I should also have broke them too. But we
may give glory unto God, that he so merciful¬
ly takes patience with sinners ; that though
we have dared him to his face, yet doth he
stand with mercy, free to all that will accept 1
of it; and, reader, stop and wonder at it, that
such an incomprehensible, wise, holy, and just
God, should work such a wonderful miracle,
as to send his only begotten Son, his only be-
>Jayed, to be united God and man, in one .
framfr,* into this world to seek and to save that ,
which was lost ? And what was lost! answer, j