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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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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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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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William Gurnall
Born:
1617
Died:
October 12, 1679
(aged 62)
Bio:
William Gurnall was an English author and clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he was baptised on 17 November 1616.
Known for:
The Christian in Complete Armour (1655)
The Christian's Labor And Reward
CHRISTIAN IN COMP ARMOUR OR A
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