God, 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 GurnallPray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
William GurnallChrist hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
William Gurnall