William Gurnall Quotes
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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
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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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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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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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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
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The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
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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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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 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.