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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.
The best Prayers have often more groans than words; and those words that it hath, are but a lean and shallow representation of the heart, life, and spirit of that Prayer. You do not find any words of Prayer that we read of, come out of the mouth of Moses, ⟨p. 54⟩when he was going out of Egypt, and was followed by Pharaoh, Exod. 14. 15. and yet he made Heaven ring again with his cry: But it was the unexpressible, and unsearchable groans, and cryings of his soul, in and with the Spirit.
The best Prayers have often more groans than words; and those words that it hath, are but a lean and shallow representation of the heart, life, and spirit of that Prayer. You do not find any words of Prayer that we reade of, come out of the mouth of Moses, ⟨p. 54⟩when he was going out of Egypt, and was followed by Pharoah, Exod. 14. 15. and yet he made Heaven ring again with his cry: But it was the unexpressible, and unsearchable groans, and cryings of his soul, in and with the Spirit.
God is the God of Spirits, Numb. 16. 22. and his eyes look further than the outside of any duty whatsoever, 1 Sam. 16. 7.
God is the God of Spirits, Numb. 16. 22. and his eyes look further than the ourside of any duty whatsoever, 1 Sam. 16. 7.