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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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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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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
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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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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
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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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Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
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Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!
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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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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
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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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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
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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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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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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 Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
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It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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