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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.
Is Ephraim my dear Son? Is he a pleasant Child? For since I spake unto him, ⟨p. 66⟩I do earnestly remember him still; therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Is Ephraim my dear Son? Is he a pleasant Chlld? For since I spake unto him, ⟨p. 66⟩I do earnestly remember him still; therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Thus you see, that as it is required to pray with the Spirit, so it is to pray with the Understanding also.
And to illustrate what hath been spoken by a similitude;
Set the case there should come two a begging to your door, the one is a poor, lame, wounded, and almost starved creature; the other is a healthful lusty person.