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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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Christian
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Faith

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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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One Almighty is more than all mighties
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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
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Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
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Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.
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Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
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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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We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
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We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.
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Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
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Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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