William Gurnall Quotes

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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

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In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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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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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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Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

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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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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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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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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

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The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

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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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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.

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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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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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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

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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 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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The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

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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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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

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Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

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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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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

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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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Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

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