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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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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 in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.
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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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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
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There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.
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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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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
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CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
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The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
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Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.
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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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Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.
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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections well may the saints one with another.
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Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.
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