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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.
David by this could guess at the very thoughts of God towards him, Psal. 40. 5.
And thus it was with the woman of Canaan (Mat. 15. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.) she did by Faith and a right Understanding, discern (beyond all the rough carriage of Christ) tenderness and willingness in his heart to save, which caused her to be vehement and earnest, yea, restless, until she did enjoy the mercy she stood in need of.
An understanding of the willingness that is in the heart of God to save sinners, there is nothing will press the soul more to seek after God, and to cry for pardon, than it. If a man should ⟨p. 63⟩see a Pearl, worth an hundred pounds, lye in a ditch, yet, if he understood not the value of it, he would lightly pass it by; but if he once get the knowledge of it, he would venture up to the neck for it.
An understanding of the willingness that is in the heart of God to save sinners, there is nothing will press the soul more to seek after God, and to cry for pardon, than it. If a man should ⟨p. 63⟩see a Pearle, worth an hundred pounds, lye in a ditch, yet, if he understood not the value of it, he would lightly pass it by; but if he once get the knowledge of it, he would venture up to the neck for it.