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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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Theologian
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As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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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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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.
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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
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Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
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We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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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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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
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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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Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
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Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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