Inspirational Quotes by 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.”
topics: Satan
“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.”
“Again, Satan will ask the Christian what was the time of his conversion. Art thou a Christian, will he say, and dost thou not know when thou commencedst? Now content thyself with this, that thou seest the streams of grace; you may know the sun is up, though you did not observe when it rose.”
topics: Satan
“When Satan finds the good man asleep, then he finds our good God awake; therefore thou art not consumed, because he changeth not.”
topics: Satan
“He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.”
“Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.”
“It is as impossible to understand the Scriptures without the Spirit's help as it is to read a sundial without the sun.”
topics: Scripture
“The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.”
topics: Scripture
“Take heart therefore, O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good, God himself espouseth your quarrel, who hath appointed you his own Son, General of the field, called 'the Captain of our salvation.'”
“And doth not God deserve the best service thou canst do him in thy generation?”
topics: Service
“Therefore it should be our care, if we would not yield to the sin, not to walk by, or sit at, the door of the occasion.”
topics: Sin
“Sin disabled man to keep God's law, but it doth not enfranchise or disoblige him that he need not keep it.”
“If thou dost not stumble at this stone, the devil hath another at hand to throw in the way. He is not so unskillful a fowler as to go with one single shot into the field; and therefore expect him, as soon as he hath discharged one, and missed thee, to let fly at thee with a second.”
topics: Struggles
“Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.”
topics: Suffering
“We are bid to take, not to make our cross.”
“No, 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.”
topics: Truth
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William Gurnall (1617 - 1679)
Was an English author and clergyman born at King's Lynn, Norfolk. He was educated at the free grammar school of his native town, and in 1631 was nominated to the Lynn scholarship in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1635 and MA in 1639. He was made rector of Lavenham in Suffolk in 1644; and before he received that appointment he seems to have officiated, perhaps as curate, at Sudbury.Gurnall is known by his Christian in Complete Armour, published in three volumes, dated 1655, 1658 and 1662. It consists of sermons or lectures delivered by the author in the course of his regular ministry, in a consecutive course on Ephesians 6: 10–20. It is described as a magazine whence the Christian is furnished with spiritual arms for the battle, helped on with his armour, and taught the use of his weapon; together with the happy issue of the whole war. It is thus considered a classic on spiritual warfare.
William Gurnall was educated at the free grammar school of his native town, and in 1631 was nominated to the Lynn scholarship in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1635 and MA in 1639. He was made rector of Lavenham in Suffolk in 1644; and before he received that appointment he seems to have officiated, perhaps as curate, at Sudbury.
Gurnall is known by his Christian in Complete Armour, published in three volumes, dated 1655, 1658 and 1662. It consists of sermons or lectures delivered by the author in the course of his regular ministry, in a consecutive course on Ephesians 6:10-20. Comment, or recommendation, is perhaps needless in speaking of Gurnall's great work.