A30158:147
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.
So it is with souls concerning the things of God; If a man once get an understanding of the worth of them, then his heart, nay, the very strength of his soul runs after them, and he will never leave crying till he have them.
The two blind men in the Gospel, because they did certainly know that Jesus who was going by them, was both able & willing to heal such infirmities as they were afflicted with, therefore they cried, and the more they were rebuked, the more they cried, Mat. 20. 29, 30, 31.
The two blind men in the Gospel, because they did certainly know that Jesus who was going by them, was both able & willing to heal such infirmities as they were afflicted with, therefore they cryed, and the more they were rebuked, the more they cryed, Mat. 20. 29, 30, 31.
Thirdly, The understanding being spiritually enlightened, hereby there is the way (as aforesaid) discovered, through which the soul should come unto God; which gives great encouragement unto it.
Thirdly, The understanding being spiritually enlightned, hereby there is the way (as aforesaid) discovered, through which the soul should come unto God; which gives great encouragement unto it.