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need it, when you are not looking for it and it will be a bloody one.

12. After this, in the year 1682, he went to Ireland again, & came to the house of William Steel in Glenwarry, in the county of Antrim, he enquired at Mrs Steel, if she wanted a servant for threshing victual. She said, they did and enquired what his wages were a day, or a week, He said, The common rate was a common rule ; to which he assented. At night he was put to the barn to bed with the servant lad, and that night he spent in prayer and groaning, up and down the barn. Tomorrow he threshed victual with the lad, and the next night he spent the same way, the second day in the morning, the lad said to his mistress, this man sleeps none, but groans and prays all night; I get no sleep for him. He threshes very well, and is not sparing of himself though I think he has not been used with it, for he can do nothing to the botteling and ordering of the barn, and when I put the barn in order, he goes to such a place, and there he prays for the afflicted church of Scotland, and names so many people in the furnace. He wrought the second day, and his mistress watched and overheard him praying as the lad had said ; at night she desired her husband to enquire if he was a minister, which he did, and desired him to be free