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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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One Almighty is more than all mighties
William Gurnall
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
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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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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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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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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
William Gurnall
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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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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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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
William Gurnall