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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make a genuine repentance. If you should
neglect your Bible, and live in wickedness,
be sure you will never die happy.
I know quite well that you, and I, and the
generality of mankind, put off repentance to
the last moments; but is God obliged to wait
on us when we are ready ? After we have spent
our youth in wickedness, can we make our¬
selves sure that God will bring us to repent¬
ance in our old days ? No, my friends, be
sure that if you delay, God will tell you in
the judgment, “ You mocked my threatenings
and my offers when I called on you ; I will
laugh at your calamity when your sorrows
come upon you.” At that day he shall say,
“ Depart from me you accursed into everlasting
ij fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, there
shall be wailing, and weeping, and gnashing
of teeth.” Oh what a sentence, my dear friends;
think on it before it be too late ! Remember,
J and althoughitbeapoorcondemned criminal—
1 condemned for blood—that warns you, there is
no repentance in the grave, nor pardon offered
) to the dead.
Brother sailors, whenever you can enjoy an
{ opportunity,be it wheresoever it will, on sea or
i on land, practise much reading of good books
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