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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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Faith
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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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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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One Almighty is more than all mighties
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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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Least doers are the greatest boasters.
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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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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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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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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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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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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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Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
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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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God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.
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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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