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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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Fourthly. There is the Method of Conscience; Our God withholds us from Sin, by the Control of Conscience, which He has placed as His Deputy in our Souls. Men durst not Sin as they would, because of what the Candle of the Lord shows unto them; they can't Sin except they put out this Candle. A Conscience which tells them, That they who do such things are worthy of Death; The Conscience which causes a Wicked man, to do what no other man could bring him to; Act. XXIV. 25. To Tremble at the Thoughts of a Judgment to come. That stands in the way of many a man, like an Angel with a Flaming ⟨p. 14⟩Sword, and stops him, when his Way is perverse before the Lord.
Fourthly. There is the Method of Conscience; Our God witholds us from Sin, by the Controul of Conscience, which He has placed as His Deputy in our Souls. Men durst not Sin as they would, because of what the Candle of the Lord shows unto them; they can't Sin except they put out this Candle. A Conscience which tells them, That they who do such things are worthy of Death; The Conscience which causes a Wicked man, to do what no other man could bring him to; Act. XXIV. 25. To Tremble at the Thoughts of a Judgment to come. That stands in the way of many a man, like an Angel with a Flaming ⟨p. 14⟩Sword, and stops him, when his Way is perverse before the Lord.
And our God, by ordering a Good Education for us, keeps our Conscience in a more Wakeful and Active Plight; so that we cannot get over the Checks which it gives unto us. This Light within, tho' it be so darkened that it is not a sufficient Guide unto Life, yet it shows us, many Fair Things, and like a Fire it scalds us if we do any Foul ones. The Supreme Governor of the World holds the World in order by this Golden Engine, & withholds men from very much of the Disorder which else they would rush into. Many a man would Murder his Parents, Destroy his own Wife, Debauch his Neighbours, Blaspheme God, Burn down the Town, and run a muck among the people, if some Conscience did not withhold men from Sinning at such a rate of Outrageous Madness. The men who proclaim it, that they have shaken off the Regards of Conscience, and suppressed & smothered