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William Gurnall

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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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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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CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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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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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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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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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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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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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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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
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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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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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Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: My flesh, saith David, shall rest in hope.
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We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
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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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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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