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The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
William Gurnall
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William Gurnall
Age: 62 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1679
Died: October 12
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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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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
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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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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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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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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
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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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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 Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
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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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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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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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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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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
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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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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
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