Top 100 Gurnall Quotes
#1. You see when a soul comes over from Satan's quarters unto Christ, and has but once the experience of that sweetness which is in his service, there is no getting him back to his old drudgery; as
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#2. Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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#3. The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
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#5. apply thyself to the use of those means which God hath appointed for the strengthening grace. If
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#6. 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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#7. The providences of God to his saints here, while on this low bottom of earth, are mixed and parti-coloured, as was signified by the 'speckled' horses, Zech. 1:8, in
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
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#12. 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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#13. Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
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#15. Art thou a magistrate? now it will be soon seen on whose side thou art. If indeed thou hast renounced allegiance to Satan, and taken Christ for thy prince, declare thyself an enemy to all that bear the name of Satan, and march under his colours. Study
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#16. As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou
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#17. Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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#19. 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
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#20. The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.
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#21. 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.
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#22. How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance ... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?
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#23. Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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#24. We are justified, not by giving anything to God,
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
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#25. Many think they shall not pay so dear for an error in judgment as for a sin in practice. Yea, some have such a latitude, that they fancy a man may be saved in any religion -
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
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#29. Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
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#30. Faith hath an incarnating virtue, as they say of some strengthening meat; it feeds upon the promise, and that 'is perfect, converting' - or rather restoring - 'the soul,' Ps. 19:7. Though
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#31. Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.
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#32. 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
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#33. Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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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#36. Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.
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#42. Christ counts it his honour, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves. He comes to make you free, not to bring you into bondage, to make you kings, not vassals. None
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#43. Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.
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#44. 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
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#45. 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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#46. Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but
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#47. 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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#48. 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.
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#50. If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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#51. 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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#52. Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
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#53. 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.
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#54. The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
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#55. 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!
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#56. Great and small, minister and people, all must wrestle; not one part of Christ's army in the field, and the other at ease in their quarters, where no enemy comes. Here
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#57. They love truth flourishing, who do not love it when it is confuting. They dare handle and look on the sword with delight when in a rich scabbard, who would run away to see it drawn.
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#58. Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
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#59. It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.
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#60. Thou art translated into the kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his court. That
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#61. There is no less wickedness potentially in the tamest sinner on earth, than in the devils themselves, and that one day thou, whoever thou art, wilt show to purpose, if God prevent thee not by his renewing grace. Thou
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#62. 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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#63. Bless God, O ye saints, who upon the former trial, can say you are translated into the kingdom of Christ, and so delivered from the tyranny of this usurper. There
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#64. The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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#70. The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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#71. Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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#72. the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.
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#74. Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
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#75. No more, then, shall he infest the saints, no, nor rule the wicked, but he with them, and they with him, shall lie under the immediate execution of God's wrath. For
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#77. 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.
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#78. Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.
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#80. God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.
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#84. The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
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#85. It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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#86. Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost
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#87. Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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#88. 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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#89. The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
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#91. 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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#92. Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.
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#93. 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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#94. The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. They say stars have greatest influences when they are in conjunction with the sun; then sure the graces of a saint should never work more powerfully than in prayer, for then he is in the nearest conjunction and communion with God. That
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#98. Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.
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#99. 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
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#100. Satan's power is ministerial, appointed by God for the service and benefit of the saints. It
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