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

DIARY, 1637-1639
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Mr. Robert Craig; afternoone I had ane long discours befor
the noblemen for the Presbyteries entree of ministers in
favors of Mr. Robert Ker, quhairin I was unthankful if I did
not acknouledge Gods assisting influence, pro re nata, and
thair applause to it and sending me as commissioner to the
Presbyterie.
Upon Frayday I went out to the Presbyterie of Hadington
in the Pans; after sundry reasonings I got ane act for his
admission on Wedensday nixt, 11 day of Apryle.1
On Saturday morning I got good in going alongst al the 7 Ap.
passages of the Lords unparalelled goodnes and friee gracious-
nes to me in my vocation to grace ; in my reclamation from
continual bakslydings ; in my voyage, my first mariage; in my
trouble of affliction, tentation, and confusion, in my second
mariage delyvering me of the first tuo; in my choyse of my
calling after many doubts; in his settling and entring me
a neu again in my calling after many long and durable
scruples for the space of three yeirs; in his assisting me
inwardly and outwardly in the acts thairof; in his present
deinyeing to honor so unaible, unworthy, and filthy a worme
with the imployment of his auin cause ; in fitting it for the and
the for it; in laying the greatest burden thairof for directing,
drauing up of writs or reasons, and correcting uthers thoughts ;
in his doing nothing nor maiking any remarquable steppe
without the at the on end of it, as in the Protestation at
Dalkeyth, about the Praerogative and Hie Commission, in
the giving in the Declinator and Protestation at Stirlin, in
thair going thair togither, in thair taiking the Protestation
at the Crosse of Edr., in the motion of reneuing the Covenant,
of garring Mr. David Dik preach, and keiping ane fast the
Sunday befor it, in the drauing up of the Covenant especyaly
the Acts of Pari., in keiping in the clause of forbearance, in
provyding in readines the copyes to be subscryved, in drauing
up the reasons and aunsuears to the three object: and to the
Act 1585, and notes on the Proclamation, in garring suear
the Covenant in Edr. after thou had seen Gods presence on
See note, p. 338.