Gurnall, WILLIAM, theological writer, was born in 1616 at Lynn, in Norfolk, was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and in 1644 became rector of Lavenham in Suffolk, where he died, 12th October 1679. He is known as author of the devout, quaint, and pithy sermons on Ephesians, chap. vi., entitled The Christian in Compleat
Armour: a Treatise of the Saints' War against the Devil (1655-62; see the ed. of 1865, with biography by Ryle).