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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
William Gurnall
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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
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What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?
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Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.
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The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
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How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
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The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: My flesh, saith David, shall rest in hope.
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Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.
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Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
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