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The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David…
The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David Wallis, on his companion Benjamin Stolwood: on Saturday night, the first of August, 1713. With his carriage oftener condemnation; his confession and dying speech at the place of execution, &c. : To which are added, the sermons preached at the lecture in Boston, in his hearing, after condemnation; and on the day of his execution, being Sept. 24. 1713.The sad effects of sin. A true relation of the murder committed by David Wallis, on his companion Benjamin Stolwood: on Saturday night, the first of August, 1713. With his carriage ofter condemnation; his confession and dying speech at the place of execution, &c. : To which are added, the sermons preached at the lecture in Boston, in his hearing, after condemnation; and on the day of his execution, being Sept. 24. 1713.
printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1713
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There were two things in the Law of Moses, that were high Expressions of the Heinous Nature of Man-slaughter in the Account of God: The one was, that ⟨p. 12⟩he that killed a man by Accident or Unawares was obliged to flee to some City of Refuge, where he must remain in Banishment from his own House and Patrimony, and in a kind of Prison there, until the death of the High Priest. By which it is certain that God meant to teach us to conceive a dread and horror of the Guilt of Blood; in that tho' the Fact were not Voluntary, nor done designedly; tho' it were but Chance-medley, and Homicide per Infortunium, yet that the Man-slayer must incur so much danger, inconvenience and confinement. The other Argument of the Criminalness of Murder was, that if a Brute Creature happened at any time to kill a man, it was to be slain by the Hand of Justice, Exod. 21. 28, 29. If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: but the owner of the ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his Owner: and he hath not kept him in: but that he hath killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and his Owner also shall be put to Death. Here was another high Instance of Gods Care of the Life of Man, and of his Detestation ⟨p. 13⟩of the Sin of Murder. And indeed this was according to that more Catholic Law given unto Noah; The Blood of your Lives will I require of every Beast.
There were two things in the Law of Moses, that were high Expressions of the Hainous Nature of Man-slaughter in the Account of God: The one was, that ⟨p. 12⟩he that kill'd a man by Accident or Unawares was obliged to flee to some City of Refuge, where he must remain in Banishment from his own House and Patrimony, and in a kind of Prison there, until the death of the High Priest. By which it is certain that God meant to teach us to conceive a dread and horror of the Guilt of Blood; in that tho' the Fact were not Voluntary, nor done designedly; tho' it were but Chance-medly, and Homicide per Infortunium, yet that the Man-slayer must incur so much danger, inconvenience and confinement. The other Argument of the Criminalness of Murder was, that if a Brute Creature happened at any time to kill a man, it was to be slain by the Hand of Justice,