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William Gurnall

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    William Gurnall

    A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

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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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    And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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    As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

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    As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

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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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    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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    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?

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    Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

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    CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

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    Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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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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    Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

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    Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

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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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    Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

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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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    For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

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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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    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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    God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

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    God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.

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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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    Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

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    God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

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    God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

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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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    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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    He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

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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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    How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.

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    Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

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    Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

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    Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

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    In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

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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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    It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

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    It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

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    It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

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    Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.

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    Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

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    Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

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    Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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    Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

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    Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

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    Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

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    Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

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    No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

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    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.

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    Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.