A30158:104
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.
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.
I do not know what, or how, it is with others hearts, whether they be lifted up by the Spirit of God, and so continued, or no: But this I am sure of;
First, That it is impossible that all the Prayer-Books that men have made in the world, should lift up or prepare the heart; that is the work of the great God himself.
And in the Second place, I am sure, that they are as far from keeping it up, when it is up.
And indeed, here is the life of Prayer, to have the heart kept with God in the duty.