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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.
And indeed, here is the life of Prayer, to have the heart kept with God in the duty.
Exod. 17. 12. It was a great matter for Moses to keep his hands lifted up to God in Prayer; but how much more then to keep the heart in it!
The want of this is that which God complains of, Ezek. 33. That they draw ⟨p. 51⟩nigh to him with their mouth, and honour him with their lips, but their hearts were far from him, (but chiefly) they that walk after the Commandments and Traditions of men: as the scope of Matth. 15. 8, 9. doth testify.
The want of this is that which God complains of, Ezek. 33. That they draw ⟨p. 51⟩nigh to him with their mouth, and honour him with their lips, but their hearts were far from him, (but chiefly) they that walk after the Commandments and Traditions of men: as the scope of Matth. 15. 8, 9. doth testifie.