I Will Not Distress
Your Tender Maternal Feelings By Any Long Comment On The
Cause Of My Present Misfortune.
Let it therefore suffice
to say, that impelled by that strong propensity to evil,
which neither the virtuous precepts nor example of the best
of parents could eradicate, I have at length fallen an unhappy,
though just, victim to my own follies.
"Too late I regret my inattention to your admonitions,
and feel myself sensibly affected by the remembrance of
the many anxious moments you have passed on my account.
For these, and all my, other transgressions, however great,
I supplicate the Divine forgiveness; and encouraged by the
promises of that Saviour who died for us all, I trust to
receive that mercy in the world to come, which my offences
have deprived me of all hope, or expectation of, in this.
The affliction which this will cost you, I hope the Almighty
will enable you to bear. Banish from your memory all my
former indiscretions, and let the cheering hope of a happy
meeting hereafter, console you for my loss. Sincerely
penitent for my sins; sensible of the justice of my conviction
and sentence, and firmly relying on the merits of a Blessed
Redeemer, I am at perfect peace with all mankind, and
trust I shall yet experience that peace, which this world
cannot give. Commend my soul to the Divine mercy.
I bid you an eternal farewell.
"Your unhappy dying Son,
"SAMUEL PEYTON."
After this nothing occurred with which I think it necessary to trouble
the reader.
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