William Gurnall Quotes
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Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.
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One Almighty is more than all mighties
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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
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The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
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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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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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And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort is not come, know it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace 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. The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrors, but it closeth with peace and joy.
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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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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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.