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

MEMENTO QUAMD1U VIVAS
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chisme1 thou got good. On Sunday the Lord assisted thy medi¬
tations. On Monondayfc. On Foorsday night thy heart was
poured out in great libertie of tears befor God. On Frayday
afternoone in the yaird God assisted thy meditation. On Satur¬
day after confession and petition thou went to the Pans ; and on 20 Apr.
Sunday thou comunicated, halving heard sermon of Chryst comunion.
passion in the gairden and his complaint to his disciples. That
night thou got som good; bot on Mononday morning in Keith 21 Ap.
Martchel gallery the Lord wonderfully mooved the first at
the repetition of his blissings, 2. at thy confession of thy
vyldnes, 3. at thy petition to him for his inward and outward
blissing of the, with ane sensible particularizing thairof to thy
manage and calling. Heir at al thir three I had ane extra¬
ordinaire great libertie of my affections. At night also in the
sam plaice, during the lyk spaice of tuo houres, my saule was
(I knou not hou) transported as it wer and ravisched out of
itselth, as forgetful of my bodie, by ane comforting, terrifying,
uniting sense and sight of Gods particularissime presence their
and then with my saule, quhilk maid me to tak, thryse or foor
tymes, my transporting schuddrings. O saule, thou knoues
that thou fand then that (I knou not quhat) quhilk, evin
quhylestthou fand it, thou couldest not expresse it to thyselth;
forget thou it never, O my saule, bot blisse the Lord for it.
On Tuesday morning and evening siklyk; at both tymes the 22.
spaice of tuo houres the Lord filled thy mynd with wonderful
meditations and thy heart with divine affections, as also on
Wedensday morning in the sam gallery of Keith Martchel;
qhilk wer al odd blissings to the worthy of ane memento, for
the quhilk my saule, heart, and body, conforme to my voue in
caise of his assistance at that comunion, singeth al prayse and
honor to my Fayther, Saviour, and Comforter.
At Wedensday night the Lord assisted me in meditating on \joi. ffl.]
mans corruption, quhilk was so great as to turne Gods greatest 23 Ap'
blissings to be our greatest curses, and to chainge thos means
and most pourful middes of mans salvation to be the greatest
causes and aggravations of his damnation,—as in prayer quherby
1 A Practical Catechisme ; or a view of those principall truths of the word
which most directly tend to life and godlinesse, by Daniel Rogers, minister of
Haversham, Bucks. A second edition was published in 1633.