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 19. After this, in the year 1682, he went to again, and came to the house of William, in Glenwharry, in the county of Antrim;  enquired at Mrs Steel if she wanted a servant  threshing victual? She said they did, and what his wages were a-day, or a-week. said, the common rate was a common rule; which she assented.-At night he was put to, in the barn, with the servant-lad; and that  he spent in prayer and groaning, up and  the barn. On the morrow he threshed with the lad, and the next night he spent  same way. The second day, in the morning, the lad said to his mistress, This man sleeps, but groans and prays all night; I get no for him: he threshes very well, and is not  of himself, tho' I think he has not been  with it, for he can do nothing to the boteling and ordering of the barn; and when I  the barn in order, he goes to such a place,  there he prays for the afflicted Church of , and names so many in the furnace.-He wrought the second day, and his mistress watched and overheard him praying, as the lad  said.-At night she desired her husband to  if he was a minister, which he did, and  him to be free with him, and he should  only be no enemy to him, but a friend. Mr Peden said, he was not ashamed of his office;