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

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DIARY OF LORD WARISTON
applyed unto myselth Bifield his singes of treu humiliation,1
and blissed God unspeakably for his inward testimony to my
conscience, that, suppose in great weaknes, yet in som measure
and degree I had found them al in this my humiliation under
Gods present wrayth ; and I prayed instantly the Lord mor
and mor for to increasse thos graces in me that, with them, my
assurance of salvation and so my unspeakable consolation might
groue through the merits of Chryst Jesus. Then, by Gods
most comfortable providence, I heard Mr. Thomas 2 on 3 c. Jhon
36 v., ‘ He that beleaveth on the Son haith everlasting lyfe:
and he that beleaveth not the Son schal not seie lyfe; bot the
wrayth of God abydeth on him.’ Quheron he insisted on Chryst
worth, our need of him, and that heir was contained the way of
salvation, to wit fayth in Chryst, and the way of condemnation,
to wit infidelite and incredulite. As for the first, he urged that
Chryst is our Saviour et vierito et efficacia, both becaus he
hes conquisst by his death and hes comunicated unto us by his
Sprit lyfe everlasting, as his proper naime of Jesus or Saviour
declaireth. For the quhilk he exponed 3 passages of Scripture,
4 Acts 12 v., ‘ For thair is none uther naime under heaven given
among men, quherby we must be saived ’; 1 Timothy 2 c. 5 v,
‘ For thair is on God, and on Mediatour betueen God and men,
the man Chryst Jesus,’ exponing that Chryst was mediator sub-
stantialis joyning the hands of God and man togither; 14 c.
Jhon 6 v. ‘Jesus sayeth unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the lyfe.’ So Chryst most both purchase and apply salvation
unto our sanies.
On Foorsday afternoone thou remembred that God never
maid the beleave mor firmly his love in Chryst, and never pre¬
sented unto thy eies mor clearly thy bygon marques, singes,
and taikens thairof nor in the immediat day and houre of his
wrayth and thy agonie; and hou thou durst attest God that
thou prayed ever as ardently that thou might hear him quhen
he speaketh to the in his word, as that he wald hear the cry of
thy prayer, and that he wald inaible the to give obedience to
his comandements as mutch as that he wald fulfil unto the al
his promises. Thou voued then to read Dod against thy prae-
Bifield. See note, p. 104.
2 Sydserff. See note, p. 89.