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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Restraints Merciful & Wonderful. Boston-Lecture, 10. d. 7. m. 1713. › APPLICATION.
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Secondly. We may wonder, That this World is not an entire Aceldama, and that it Swims not with Blood, even up to the Horse-bridles. There are cursed Fires Latent in the Souls of men; Fires that have sometimes broke out, and burnt all round about, burnt unto the very Foundations of the Mountains, burnt down all before them. A very Little Thing will serve sometimes, to blow up these Fires; Maxima odia ex Levissimis causis! And then a whole Nation becomes a formidable Volcano; no more habitable than a Vesuvie. Our Apostle speaks, as if every man had the Heart of a Murderer in him; and Rom. III. 15, 16. Feet swift to shed Blood; Destruction and Misery in their ways. We see some Commit bloody Murders. Why don't they grow as common, as they did a little before the Final Catastrophe on Jerusalem! The Venomous Hearts of Men, have in them the Root, which all Murders grow upon. Sometimes a Cup of poison to be trembled at, has been put into the Hands of Nations; Then the Intoxicated Nations have run mad; ⟨p. 24⟩have been furiously set upon destroying one another; have sheathed their Swords in one another's bowels, with a Rage that has reached up to Heaven. The Passions have been of old called; The wild beasts of the Soul. if those Wild Beasts are once let loose, they make fearful Depredations▪ they turn Populous. Regions into a Wilderness! When a Kingdom is divided against it self, what Adonis, what Opiates are they, that keep under the worst of all Frenzies, that would soon bring all to Desolation! When Distracted People think themselves oppressed, what is it that keeps under the Massanello's, or keeps things in the Calm, which tis said, the French Salvages told a greater than themselves, was the thing which of all they had seen, they most admired at? Who is it that Stills the Noise of the Seas, and the Tumult of the People? Our Good God has acquainted us with the Reason of this; I withheld them!
Secondly. We may wonder, That this World is not an entire Aceldema, and that it Swims not with Blood, even up to the Horse-bridles. There are cursed Fires Latent in the Souls of men; Fires that have sometimes broke out, and burnt all round about, burnt unto the very Foundations of the Mountains, burn't down all before them. A very Little Thing will serve sometimes, to blow up these Fires; Maxima odia ex Levissimis causis! And then a whole Nation becomes a formidable Volcano; no more habitable than a Vesuvie. Our Apostle speaks, as if every man had the Heart of a Murderer in him; and