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

DIARY, 1637-1639
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interessed; doe it thyselth, and maik me to feel thy mor
immediat hand besier in this nor in any uther, as I may be
forced on my knees with manifold tears to cry out, ‘ The Lord
hes doone, the Lord hes doone.’
Upon Saturday I conferred with Mrs. Anna Ker and with \J°l- ^•]
the Lady Philliphauch about Crambies perseuing my L.
Traquair and wounding Mr. Jhon Lauson.1 I wryt ane letter
to my mother, as on Mononday morning another to my L.
Rothes of my desyre and confidence to undergoe al tryal for
this cause of Chryst.
On Sunday I heard Mr. Hery foranoone, and Mr. Andreu
afternoone, doe both verry weal; I got great good and libertie
both morning and evening in my familie exerceis.
On Mononday morning, haiving written Rothes letter, 129-
againe and againe begged the Lord to be with me in this
weeks studie anent the main busines itselth for Chrysts saik,
that I may be forced the nixt day of the Lord to acknouledge
the outward providence and inward assistance of the Lord
thairin, as I voued particularly to prayse him for every
particular. O doe it, doe it for thy auin naimes saik, and
assure my saule evin aforhand that thou wil doe it, and force
me to say thou hes doon it; and so this Mononday morning I
beginne in nomine Domini mei Jehovah. Within ane houre
after I had written quhat is befor, at the first taiking the ff2 on
my hand, I lights upon quod cujuscunque universitatis nomine,
etc., and de collegiis illicitis with the exception religionis causa,
quhilk I took as ane good augure of Gods outward providence
to cast in my hand sik passages and books as might clear my
mynd in this cause, and thairfor fell doune on my knees and
praysed my gracious God.
Upon Tuesday the meiting for mending the Information
was schifted.
Upon Wedeinsday morning my mynd was verry heavy and
melancholik at my not finding sik spritual dispositions in my
1 ‘His’ (the Treasurer’s) ‘porter being dismissed for evil service, set upon
his Lady in the garden of Dalkeith with a drawn sword ; and had not other two
servants gone betwixt, who both are hurt, the villaine had certainly killed her.’
—Baillie’s Letters, vol. i. p. 48.
2 The Pandects or Digest of Justinian.