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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

William Gurnall

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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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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 stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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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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God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.
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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
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Least doers are the greatest boasters.
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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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CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
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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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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath it is called the rejoicing of hope (Hebrews 3:6).
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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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