William Gurnall
William Gurnall
William Gurnallwas an English author and clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he was baptised on 17 November 1616...
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christian running blessing
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.
running men blood
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.
disabled doth law man sin
Sin disabled man to keep God's law, but it doth not enfranchise or disoblige him that he need not keep it
beyond fill men none though
Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.
death fear heaven hope master
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
enemy sides armour
Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.
fall church liberty
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no dispatches sent to court to procure his liberty; but many to the churches, to help them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free... The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
christian peace thinking
And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comesto stay everlastingly with them; whreas your peace is going 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.
christian sleep blessing
Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."
believe past hands
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
kings cottages advent
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
grace ifs
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
crosses
We are bid to take, not to make our cross.
affliction prosperity made
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.