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

MEMENTO QUAMDIU VIVAS
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present affliction, and by his resolving me quhat to doe. After
supper I read the epistles of Jhon.
On Wedensday morning I reiterated my prayers and my
prayses, reading al the hinmist Psalmes. At the 126 Ps. 5 v.
instantly thou prayed the Lord in thy knees that, seing nou
thou had souen most abondantly in tears, he wald also mak the
reape the mor excessive joie according to his present promise,
and thy bygon experience cheifly in thy voyage and in thy
mariage. In the old kirk thou heard ane yong man called [/<>/. es.j
Cambel teatch verry weal upon the 5 c. Ephes. 15 v., ‘ See then
that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, hot as wyse, redeam-
ing the tyme, becaus the dayes ar evil.’ The verse prseceding
is, ‘Awak thou that sleapest, and aryse from the dead, and
Chryst schal give the light.’ After serftion, in thy sisters upper
chalmer, ever until 11 heurs thou was as mutch cast doune and
dejected as ever, and poured out thy heart with innumbrable
tears and unexpressable sighs unto God, evin confidently as
unto thy Fayther nou reconciled in Chryst and so, as it wer5
bound unto the as unto his chyld by the band of his faytherly
affection for to comfort thy comfortles heart, and for to direct
thy confounded saule in al thy confusions; as also thou
challenged him of al his promises quherof he himselth had
maid and inabled the for to fulfull the condition; for then I
schouted, ‘ Lord, Thou hes maid me weary, therfor releave, 11
Math. 28 v., Thou hes given me ane broken heart and ane
contrite sprite, therfor be near and saive, 34 Ps. 18 v., Thou
hes teatched me to cal in the day of my trouble on the; Abba
Fayther therfor delyver, 50 Ps. 15 v., and so in al uther thy
promises thou hes inabled me to fulfil the condition quhilk is
my pairt, and therfor, O Lord, remember the words quheron
thou hes maid thy servant for to hoope.’
Al afternoone having only read upon Rogers Evidence of
Heaven, at night I fand my saule overjoied with unspeakable
consolations, arysing from ane inward persuasion of Gods
Sprit that the most pairt of al his notes and marks I kneu
them experimentally, and so I might be assured of the infalli-
bilite of my salvation in Gods auin tyme. Then quhat
spiritual rejoycing, singing, praysing, blissing filled al the
pouers of my saule and al the affections of my heart, tonge of