 This extreme turn in fortune made her question God's benevolence or existence, leading a personal experience with radical Nonconformist preachers, and later self-proclaimed prophets, John Bull and Richard Farnham.Thurgood eventually reconciled her faith with an ascetic view towards her material privation.Thurgood later, in her "Lecture", pointed to a "sweet flash" on 4 November 1635/6 as the turning point of her faith, likely upon prompting from millenarian preachers to identify such a divine revelation.