A30158:170
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.
Here now, if the soul be not well informed in its understanding, it will presently cry out, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me, ⟨p. 70⟩Isa. 45. 27. Whereas the soul rightly informed and enlightened, saith, Well, I will seek the Lord, and wait; I will not leave off, though the Lord keep silence, and speak not one word of comfort, Isa. 49. 14.
Here now, if the soul be not well informed in its understanding, it will presently cry out, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me, ⟨p. 70⟩Isa. 45. 27. Whereas the soul rightly informed and enlightned, saith, Well, I will seek the Lord, and wait; I will not leave off, though the Lord keep silence, and speak not one word of comfort, Isa. 49. 14.
He loved Jacob dearly, and yet he made him wrestle before he had the blessing, Gen. 32. 25, 26, 27.
Seeming delays in God are no tokens of his displeasure; he may hide his face from his dearest Saints, Isa. 8. 17. He loves to keep his People praying, and to find them ever knocking at the gate of Heaven: It may be, says the soul, the Lord tries me, or he loves to hear me groan out my condition before him.