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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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Exercise
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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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The sins of teachers are the teachers of 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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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
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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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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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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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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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The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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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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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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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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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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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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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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