Series 1 > Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston 1632-1639

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DIARY OF LORD WARISTON
schoe me the better and God would blisse us both the mor,
seing us joyning our hearts togither in the bands of his love
and fear. O saule, remember hou oft thou haist instantly
craived this at Gods hands, yea ever nixt unto thy auine
salvation.
The Foursday afternoone thou went out with thy uncle to seie
hir and, having told unto hir hou this match was weal lyked of
by freinds of both syds, thou craived not ane present ‘I’ or ‘No’
from hir, but desyred hir to advyse on her knees with hir God
and to pray him instantly to further it if it was for his glory,
and for the weal and contentment of freinds, and for hir and
my salvation; or to hinder it if he thought it not meet for his
glory and our weal; schoe having promised so to doe, hir heart
warmed to me and myne to hir at the halwindou straingly;
and the people of the house jesting hir told me thairafter
schoe was grouing verry devot, quharby I kneu schoe had sought
Gods direction, and at my retour accepted me kyndly.
\_fol. 5.] My saule, remember hou God haistened thy delyverie con-
traire to the desyre of sundry and thy fear, and hou al hir
freinds and thy freinds, yea al indifferent persons hearing of it,
thought it the fittest matche that ever was in Edimbrugh;
remember, thou having groune somquhat secure was crossed
by Gods providence in thy excessive affection to hir by hir
remissnes (as seemed unto the) to the ; then it went on after the
contract with applause of al and contradictione of none. The
Wedensday foorten days befor our mariage thair was ane fast
in Edimbrugh ; O saule, remember hou the Lord humbled the
thairin; and the Foorsday quhen thou went to Foulden, and
thair the Frayday, Saturday, Sunday morning and evening, and
Mononday on thy journey, hou thou poured out thy heart
befor the Lord; and hou, by Gods special providence, the
comunion was to be given the Sunday befor my mariage in the
Pans. Saule, thou went on Saturday, and at night behind ane
daik haiving maid ane catalog of al thy iniquites doone eyther
befor or after thy calling thou humbly confessed them, cryed
for pardoune and, in taken of Gods reconciliation, for his
blissing on my mariage; on Sunday morning hou thou cryed to
the Lord from 2 hours to 6 in ane old barne, and haiving
gottin at the table the assurance of Gods mercy pardoning al