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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.
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.
I doubt this is but little thought on by the most of them that would be looked upon as a praying people.
The nearer a man comes in any work that God commands him, to the doing of it according to his will; so much the more hard and difficult it is. And the reason is, because man, as man, is not able to do it.
But Prayer (as aforesaid) is not only a duty, but one of the most eminent duties; and therefore so much the more difficult. Therefore Paul knew what he said, when he said, I will pray with the Spirit. He knew well, it was