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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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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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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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Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
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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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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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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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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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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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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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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
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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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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
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One Almighty is more than all mighties
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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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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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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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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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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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