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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.
When David had the pains of hell catching hold on him, and the sorrows of hell compassing him about, he needed not a Bishop in a Surplice, to learn him to say, O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul, Psal. 116. 3, 4. Or to look into a Book, to teach him in a Form to pour out his heart before God.
It is the nature of the heart of sick men, in their pain and sickness, to vent it self for ease, by dolorous groans and complaints to them that stand by.
Seventhly, It is necessary that there be an enlightened Understanding, to the end that the soul be kept in a continuation of the duty of Prayer.