A30158:136
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.
In my speaking to this, I shall show you what it is to pray with Understanding.
In my speaking to this, I shall shew you what it is to pray with Understanding.
Understanding is to be taken both for speaking in our mother-tongue; and also experimentally.
I shall pass the first, and treat only on the second.
For the making of right Prayers, it is to be required that there should be a good or spiritual understanding in all them who pray to God.
First, To pray with Understanding, is to pray as being instructed by the Spirit, in the understanding of the want of those things which the soul is to pray for.