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?
William GurnallWe need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.
William GurnallWeak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
William GurnallThou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
William Gurnall