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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chap. vii. verse 19. “ My son, give, I pray thee,
glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make f
confession unto him.” I then considered!
I had got sent to me from Stornoway, a
town in the Lewis island, a sum of money in f
gold, which I received in the beginning of l
December. It was a sum of money that I had
left in the hands of a person who had detained
it four months ; but shortly after my wife re¬
ceived it in her lodging in the town. We both
consulted together, and we delivered it up, as
not being our own. Reader, should your
heart be covetous, I recommend you to read |
this chapter, and you will find that the pure eye
of the all-seeing God, in spite of all human
secrets, will discover whatever is concealed,
be it what it will. These lines caused me to ;
give up the money, through fear of its being a
curse on my family, if they made use of it. I
have been strongly tempted ; therefore, reader, I
whoever you be, pray to the Lord thy God, j
and say, lead me not by thy providence or ;
permission, into the danger of temptation, lest
I should fall by it, (as I have.)
I can give you no other satisfaction than my
word for what I am going to say; believe me
that I never before practised such work as has i
brought me here ; but I may say, thank God ■.
chap. vii. verse 19. “ My son, give, I pray thee,
glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make f
confession unto him.” I then considered!
I had got sent to me from Stornoway, a
town in the Lewis island, a sum of money in f
gold, which I received in the beginning of l
December. It was a sum of money that I had
left in the hands of a person who had detained
it four months ; but shortly after my wife re¬
ceived it in her lodging in the town. We both
consulted together, and we delivered it up, as
not being our own. Reader, should your
heart be covetous, I recommend you to read |
this chapter, and you will find that the pure eye
of the all-seeing God, in spite of all human
secrets, will discover whatever is concealed,
be it what it will. These lines caused me to ;
give up the money, through fear of its being a
curse on my family, if they made use of it. I
have been strongly tempted ; therefore, reader, I
whoever you be, pray to the Lord thy God, j
and say, lead me not by thy providence or ;
permission, into the danger of temptation, lest
I should fall by it, (as I have.)
I can give you no other satisfaction than my
word for what I am going to say; believe me
that I never before practised such work as has i
brought me here ; but I may say, thank God ■.
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| Description | Written by himself in prison. With preliminary remarks, containing an account of him after his condemnation till his death |
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| Shelfmark | ABS.1.83.200(1) |
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