Although particularly famous, Mercy Wheeler’s case was not isolated. On July 24, 1769, after Mary Read had been bedridden for three years, she heard a voice that seemed audible, repeating three times that she should rise and walk, and suddenly she found herself well.[205] On July 10, 1794, Mary Spaulding, sick for many years, felt an overwhelming impression that as Jesus healed the woman with the flow of blood, she too would be healed. Praising God, “I immediately arose from my bed of sickness,” she testified, and “felt free from all my infirmities.”[206] Also in the 1700s, Hannah Coleman of
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