Diary of Alexander Jaffray, provost of Aberdeen

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it, without prejudice or passion. And, if any error or
mistake, upon my part, be in it, that the Lord may be
pleased, to make him an instrument to discover the
same to me, and help me; that I may not, through
weakness or wilfulness, refuse to take out what is
wrong, when so it shall be made out to be; and if
otherwise, what truth there is in it, I may be more
and more confirmed and established therein.
The 26th, T went to visit the prisoners in the Tol-
booth. And first, I went to Mr. Robert Macquare ;
who, after some discourse of the paper I had left with
him, evidencing his great dissatisfaction thereat,
delivered it to me, and dechned to reason with me in
it; but desired, that none other should see it, and
said, he hoped I was not fixed in the matter of it.
I told him, that none had seen it, but Mr. James
Guthrie and he ; and as for ray judgment and fix-
edness thereabout, I told him, that it had been ray
judgment, now, for many years. Yet was T very
willing to hear from him or any other, what could be
said against it. Some further discourse of this kind
having passed, I came away.
The 27th day, I sent the said paper to Mr. An-
drew Cant, Junior, at Liberton, desiring hira to con-
sider of it, and give me his judgment thereupon.
The last day of June, being a sabbath, I having
been, for many days before, under a sad piece of ex-
ercise, by reason of the tmmortifiedness of my heart,
two Scriptures, also some others, were that day, and
the next raorning very early, brought to ray raiiid
and opened to rae ; so that I had good ground given
me to hope, that as the exercise of his servants
Hezekiah and Paul, (see 2 Chron. xxxii. 25, 26, and
2 Cor. xii. 7, 8,) might have been somewhat like unto