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William Gurnall
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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
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Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
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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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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.
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Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door but the Spirit is He that makes this key.
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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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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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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How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him 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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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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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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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
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Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?
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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?
William Gurnall
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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