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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.
William Gurnall
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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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