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

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earnestly that this sensible sight of his pardoning, spairing,
comforting, dierecting, delyvering mercies contraire to our
deserts and beyond our expectation, disapoynting our fears,
hearing our prayers, ansuering to our wisses, fulfilling our
hoopes, performing his promises, might inflamme our saules with
love towards so loving a Fayther; might reneu our godlie sorrou
for offending so dating a God ; might increasse our faith aledth
in the assurance of our asternal salvation, as also of our tem¬
poral delyveries out of our subsequent troubles; might
augment our patience under Gods hands in neu straits; might
stirre us up unto a sensible thankfulnes for so sensible favors;
and at the last might arme us against the tentations of our
subsequent estaite, and quicken us to serve and obey heirafter
so loving a Fayther, so gracious a Soverainge, so merciful a
Maister. From the bottom of our hearts we prayed thus to the
Lord, ever blissing for his great undeserved blissings, especialy
for his love clear schyning to us in them,
is Aug. On Frayday morning, the sense of Gods love strak me ever
at the heart, and mooved me to a continual uprising of my
heart unto tears al the tyme of sermon on 34 Ps. 19 v., ‘ Rot the
Lord delyvereth them out of them al,’ etc. Yet my ostentation
then and my fc afternoone, by d: a: of H. H. wounded my
peace, bot immediatly I craived Gods pardon on my knees for
it; my heart within me rejoyced at Gods good providence to
me in the neues of ane publik humiliation on Wedensday nixt,
evin as it fell out befor my first mariage. I pray God to let
1%S.] me find the lyk spritual pouer and successe.
16 Aug. On Saturday foranoone my da expressed itselth excessivly.
Afternoone we gaive up our naime; and then ryding out to
Revilrig in ane great windie weat, al this tyme my heart was
transported in a heavenly disposition with continual tears, ejacu¬
lations, prayers, prayses, confessions of my unworthines and in¬
gratitude, and ane sensible sight of Gods asternal and external
love towards us in this particular. Thairafter, in the upper chal-
mer of Revilrig, haiving read 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 Ps. we prayed ;
and after prayer my saule was filled with a ravisching sense of
Gods presence, and ane ful assurance of his aeternal favor, as
my heart melted unto tears and utterd itselth in strong groans
and cryes, quherby, going on my knees to prayse God, thryse