 This despair continued for a year after her exposure to this radical doctrine, going as far to threatening to "goe from my husband" to an incredulous neighbour.Thurgood recalls one particular episode where she lay in bed with a "burning fever", tormented by the cries of her malnourished family, and feeling as if she could 'not abide this life any longer'.However, at 8 AM, on 4 November 1635/6, she experienced a revelation, as she "felt a sweet Flash coming over my heart, and suddenly withall theise words were pronounced in my heart