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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.
Jacob did not only begin, but held it; I will not let thee go, unless thou bless me, Gen. 32.
So did the rest of the Godly, Hos. 12. 4. But this could not be without the Spirit of Prayer. It is through the Spirit that we have access to the Father, Ephes. 2. 18.
That same is a remarkable place in Jude, when he stirreth up the Saints by the Judgement of God upon the ⟨p. 57⟩Wicked, to stand fast, and continue or hold out in the Faith of the Gospel, as one excellent means thereto, without which he knew they would never be able to do it. Saith he, Build up your selves in your most holy Faith, praying in the holy Ghost, Jude 20. As if he had said, Brethren, as eternal Life is laid up for the persons that hold out only, so you cannot hold out, unless you continue praying in the Spirit.