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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.
Sometimes in a way of expostulation, as Jacob, Gen. 32. 9. Sometimes in way of supplication; yet not in a verbal way only, but even from the heart there is forced by the Spirit, through the understanding, such effectual Arguments, as moveth the heart of God.
When Ephraim gets a right Understanding of his own unseemly carriages towards the Lord, then he begins to bemoan himself, Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20. and in bemoaning of himself, he useth such Arguments with the Lord, that it affects his heart, draws out forgiveness, and makes Ephraim pleasant in his eyes, through Jesus Christ our Lord. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus (saith God) Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised; as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after I was turned, I repented, and after I was instructed (or had a right understanding of my self) I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
When Ephraim gets a right Understanding of his own unseemly carriages towards the Lord, then he begins to bemoan himself, Jer. 31. 18, 19, 20. and in bemoaning of himself, he useth such Arguments with the Lord, that it affects his heart, draws out forgiveness, and makes Ephraim pleasant in his eyes, through Jesus Christ our Lord. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus (saith God) Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised; as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoak: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after I was turned, I repented, and after I was instructed (or had a right understanding of my self) I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.