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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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Secondly, The Diverting of us from Sin, by the Good Hand of God, this is one Method used by our Good God in withholding us from Sin. We should Sin more than we do, but our God withholds us, by finding something else for us to do. One gave this agreeable Account• how he kept his Innocency; The Devil don't find me at Leisure, to do what he would have me to do. Infuriated Saul would have Embrued his hands in the Blood of a Servant of God, but God called him off! We read, 1 Sam. XXIII. 27. There came a Messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come away:—You know for what. Many such a Messenger comes unto us from God, that calls us another way, when we are just upon some sinful perpetrations. The Flood seems to have been as notable, as General, an Example of this Observation. The ⟨p. 10⟩Curse of the Flood, is in this turned into a Blessing on the World. The more fructifying mould of the Earth, has been so damnified by the Flood, that men live now with more Difficulty than they did before. No man that knows the Heart of man, will deny, that a Flood of Wickedness is prevented in the World, by mens being so necessarily taken up how to Live in the World. What infinite Wickedness would men be hatching every where, if they had nothing else to do! If the World had nothing but Fruitful Plains in it, it would soon be an Entire Sodom, and fit for nothing but a Conflagration. Indeed our God withholds us from Sin, when he Compels us to Work. For the most part, our God plunges us into such indigent Circumstances, that the most of our Thought, and our Time, goes to the Earning of our Bread. By Engaging us in our daily Occupations, without which we and our Families would starve, Our God withholds us from Sinning against Him. And ⟨p. 11⟩sometimes when our Vocations are not enough to Engross our Care, and withhold us from Sin, our Vexations must; God finds out for us Vexations that shall. One man is hampered with such a Malady; another man is Embroiled with such an Enemy; a third man is taken up with such an Inconvenience. Why so; The Voice of the All-wise God unto us in these things is, Thus I withheld thee from Sinning against me!
Secondly, The Diverting of us from Sin, by the Good Hand of God, this is one Method used by our Good God in witholding us from Sin. We should Sin more than we do, but our God witholds us, by finding something else for us to do. One gave this agreeable Account how he kept his Innocency; The Devil don't find me at Liesure, to do what he would have me to do. Infuriated Saul would have Embrued his hands in the Blood of a Servant of God, but God call'd him off! We read,