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

MEMENTO QUAMDIU VIVAS
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under my trouble; thy credit is nou engaged, let me knou that
thy Fayther denyeth the nothing,’ 11c. Jho. 4>2. Quherupon
I thought I sau the Son of God putting up al thir and many
moe (quhilk I cannot repeat) befor his Fayther. My saule at
this tyme was almost out of itselth ; blissed he the Lord God
for this favor also, for quho hes sutch ane intercessour cannot
hot come good speed. At night the Lord assisted me in my
confessions, meditations, petitions, especialy letting me seie the
pouer of God on the on hand turning al, evin the devils wayes,
to my weal; and on the uther Sathans craftines by the strenth
of my corruption turning al, evin Gods mercifullest wayes with
me, unto my asternal wrak. I sau the on santifying al and
the uther polluting al; I perceived the first evin in the greatest
evils, and the second evin in the best things that befel me. I
got good out of that exhortation of Paul 4 c. Ephe., ‘ To put of
the old man and to put on the neu,’ for from the 17 v. to the
end my fc, hp, ra, Id, he, ar laid out to the.
On Frayday morning, as he had maid the goe to bed with [fol. 1U.}
this thought and desyre, so he maid the to ryse with it, to wit, 30 May‘
that he wald opin thy eies to seie al thy sinnes in thos colours
nou quherin they wil apeare unto the in thy death bed, and unto
the Lord in the day of judgement; as also to seie al Gods curses
nou in the vive delineaments quherby they wil then oppresse
my conscience, that I might mourne for them the mor heartily
nou and hunger the mor for salvation from them. My mynd,
haiving its eie ever reflecting on thos tuo during my confessions,
and praying from my inmest heart that I might so confesse nou
as to praeveine the uglynes of that sight by obteaning nou ane
assured remission aforhand in the blood of Chryst, mooved me
the Ynor humbly and attentivly to passe over every on of my
sins in thos colours quherin they wald then caive, and the mor
earnestly to cry for to releave my wearisomnes, satisfye my
hunger, perfyte my endevour of selling al to obteane Chryst
as my Lord and Saviour. Heir, O saule, the Lord maid the
put up many strong spritual petitions for repentance, remission,
praevention, and thairafter, with floods of tears, to recomend thy
calling and manage to God as farre as they wald tend to the
furtherance thairof; and then with ane unspeakable libertie
he maid the runne to Chryst, and conjure him, by al the taikens