ABSTRACT
Jane Turner followed the protocol of the experimental theology in Puritan conversion narratives, where the individual welcomes her Ordo salutis of the Holy Spirit through a series of progressive steps that reach an epiphany of salvation from which there is no way back. Free grace, once it is acknowledged and perceived by the subject, may trigger rapture. Her "idolizing" of ministers had kept her from paying attention to other doctrines and to be led by them in spiritual matters. For Turner, the exposure to the word of God, whether in a sermonic or prophetic context, might be a hindrance if there is no guarantee that God's blessing will animate those words. Diane Watt and Nancy Bradley Warren have traced continuities between medieval mystics and their seventeenth-century counterparts, considering that the differences between prophecy and mysticism mostly have to do with the vantage point of the one who is promoting the revealed experience.
