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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
— William Gurnall
No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
— William Gurnall
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
— William Gurnall
This is thy birth-day; thou wert before, but beganst to live when Christ began to live in thee. The
— William Gurnall
Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.
— William Gurnall
Satan's power is ministerial, appointed by God for the service and benefit of the saints. It
— William Gurnall
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
— William Gurnall
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
— William Gurnall
Least doers are the greatest boasters.
— William Gurnall
When thou art come to thyself to own and blush at the brutish ignorance of thy mind, thou art fit to be admitted into Christ's school. If
— William Gurnall
When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
— William Gurnall
The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
— William Gurnall
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?
— William Gurnall
The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
— William Gurnall
Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since
— William Gurnall
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
— William Gurnall
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
— William Gurnall
Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
— William Gurnall
Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look
— William Gurnall
It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster. Send
— William Gurnall
Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
— William Gurnall
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
— William Gurnall
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
— William Gurnall
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
— William Gurnall
Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
— William Gurnall
Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.
— William Gurnall
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
— William Gurnall
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
— William Gurnall
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
— William Gurnall
Faith and repentance will be good doctrine to preach and hear to the end of the world; you
— William Gurnall
apply thyself to the use of those means which God hath appointed for the strengthening grace. If
— William Gurnall
Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
— William Gurnall
It is not, indeed, the bare knowing the truths of the gospel saves; but the gross ignorance of them, to be sure, will damn souls.
— William Gurnall
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
— William Gurnall
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
— William Gurnall
Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
— William Gurnall
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.
— William Gurnall
We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
— William Gurnall
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.
— William Gurnall
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
— William Gurnall
God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.
— William Gurnall
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
— William Gurnall
The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
— William Gurnall
Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
— William Gurnall
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
— William Gurnall
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
— William Gurnall
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
— William Gurnall
As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.
— William Gurnall
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
— William Gurnall
Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost
— William Gurnall
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
— William Gurnall
The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
— William Gurnall
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
— William Gurnall
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
— William Gurnall
Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?
— William Gurnall
We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
— William Gurnall
Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.
— William Gurnall
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
— William Gurnall
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
— William Gurnall
And they cannot be solid Christians, that are not instructed in the grounds of Christianity. The
— William Gurnall
The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
— William Gurnall
O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!
— William Gurnall
We are justified, not by giving anything to God,what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us. — William Gurnall
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
— William Gurnall
It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
— William Gurnall
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
— William Gurnall
Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
— William Gurnall
Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but
— William Gurnall
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
— William Gurnall
the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.
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We are bid to take, not to make our cross.
— William Gurnall
The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.
— William Gurnall
one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's
— William Gurnall
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
— William Gurnall
As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou
— William Gurnall
God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
— William Gurnall
CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.
— William Gurnall
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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Thou art translated into the kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his court. That
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One Almighty is more than all mighties
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Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.
— William Gurnall
Christ is a prince that loves to see his people thrive and grow rich under his government. This
— William Gurnall
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
— William Gurnall