William Gurnall Quotes

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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

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God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.

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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

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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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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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Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

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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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Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

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God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

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The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

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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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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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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

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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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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

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And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comesto stay everlastingly with them; whreas your peace is going is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends.

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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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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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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

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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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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

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The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

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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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