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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Heinous-Nature Of the SIN of Murder: And the great Happiness of Deliverance from it.
The Hainous-Nature Of the SIN of Murder: And the great Happiness of Deliverance from it.
Psalm LI. 14. Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness, O GOD, thou God of my Salvation: And my Tongue shall Sing aloud of thy Righteousness:
THIS Psalm, as it was Composed by One of the […] of Saints, upon one of the most Sad Occasions that was ever known; So it breathes the most Consummate Repentance; Expressing in the most ⟨p. 4⟩lively colours, and in the most affecting manner, the A••iction and Distress, Humiliations, Fears and Desires of a Repenting Soul. David had been guilty of one of the foulest Acts of Wickedness in the matter of Uriah, which Sin he here bitterly bewails; and as a Testimony of his unfeigned Sorrow, and that he might be as notorious an Instance of true Repentance, He sends this Hymn to the Master of Music in the Tabernacle, to be there perpetually used. In the Text, he names the very fact and bloody guilt, which was Murder; that Enormous Crime, the Guilt of Blood, shed in a very base and barbarous manner; for he Slew Uriah with the Sword of the Children of Ammon. He cries to God for Mercy, and makes his Supplication to his Judge for Pardon.