There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.
William GurnallThe 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.
William GurnallFor a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
William GurnallGod, 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.
William Gurnall