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I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also,…
I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also, or, A discourse touching prayer, from I Cor. 14.15 wherein is briefly discovered 1. What prayer is, 2. What it is to pray with the spirit, 3. What it is to pray with the spirit and with the understanding also / by John Bunyan.
London : Printed for the author, 1663
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is a great work for any man without the strength of the Spirit; and therefore I conceive that this is one of the great reasons why the Spirit of God is called a Spirit of Supplication, Zech. 12. 11. because it is that which helpeth the heart when it supplicates indeed, to do it.
And therefore saith Paul, Ephes. 6. 18.—Praying with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit. And so in my Text, I will pray with the Spirit.
Prayer, without the heart be in it, is like a sound without life; and a heart, without it be lifted up of the Spirit, will never pray to God.
Eighthly, As the heart must be lifted ⟨p. 50⟩up by the Spirit if it pray aright; so also it must be held up by the Spirit when it is up, if it continue to pray aright.