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William Gurnall Quotes: Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
         

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 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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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.



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



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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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The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.



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



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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.





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