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

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DIARY OF LORD WARISTON
on Sunday for to winne Gods word,’ quhilk speatch preceding
from ane bairne Mr. Alexander Hay could never forget; schoe
told me also som good things and sings of grace in my wyfes
mother,1 quhilk maid me to thank God that schoe was of the
seied of the faithful.
{/„/. 34.-] At evening, in the Scheins yairds,! repeated my morning con¬
fession and prayer unto the Almightie as ardently and instantly
as I could, having first meditated on Job fra the 3 to the 12
chap. Having souped with Schir James Gallouay 2 I meditated
after supper on that hou ever by experience I had found al
things, yea the greatest wordlie contentments, to he hot vanite
and void of any satisfaction to ane mans mynd, yea to he ane
real vexation of sprit, and so ful of greifs and miscontentments
both in the getting, keaping, lossing of them.
On Frayday morning with many tears, groanings, and sighs
unutterable, reiterated I my confession and my prayer for recon¬
ciliation with confidence on the on pairt becaus I confessed my
sinnes, lamented for them, repented of them, cryed for pardon
in the blood of the Lambe, and nou amended them as I could,
for my bygon securite hold me nou waken, my bygon impaenit-
ence was nou lamented for, my unthankfulnes bygon was nou
turned unto ane continual particular remembrance of Gods
love in every particular blissing that befel me, specialy in my
mariage, and so in ane continual thanking of God every
morning and evening for his goodnes. On the uther pairt I had
no hoope of ane delyvrie from my troubles, greifs, fears, and
perplexities becaus my heart within me durst not so mutch
as promise to God not to be unthankful as I had beine befor
for his preceding delyvrie, becaus it forseeth and knoueth its
auine perversnes in turning Gods blissings unto wantonnes; so
confounded went I unto the curche, and befor sermon read
Salomons dedication of the temple 8 c. 1 Kings and then
1 Margaret Winrame, first wife of Sir Lewis Stewart.
2 Sir James Galloway, Master of Requests under James VI. and Charles I.,
was knighted before February 22, 1631 ; admitted as Member of the Privy
Council, August 5, 1630, on a Royal Warrant, dated May 5, 1628; a loyal
supporter of Charles; was raised to the Peerage by the title of Lord Dunkeld,
May 15, 1645. He was a son of Mr. Patrick Galloway, minister of Perth, after¬
wards one of the ministers of Edinburgh. Sir James Galloway died at West¬
minster in November 1660.