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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.
Alas, how many poor souls are there in the world, that truly fear the Lord; who, because they are not well informed in their understanding, are oft ready to give up all for lost, upon almost every trick and temptation of Satan! The Lord pity them, and help them to pray with the Spirit, and with the Understanding also.
Alas, how many poor souls are there in the world, that truly fear the Lord; who, because they are not well informed in their understanding, are oft ready to give up all for lost, upon almost every trick and temptation of Satan! The Lord pitty them, and help them to pray with the Spirit, and with the Understanding also.
Much of mine own experience could I here discover; when I have been in my fits of agonies of spirit, I have been strongly persuaded to leave off, and to seek the Lord no longer; but being made to understand, what great sinners the Lord hath had mercy upon; and how large his Promises were still to sinners; and that it was not the whole, but the sick, not the righteous, but the ⟨p. 72⟩sinner, not the full, but the empty, that he extended his Grace and Mercy unto.
Much of mine own experience could I here discover; when I have been in my fits of agonies of spirit, I have been strongly perswaded to leave off, and to seek the Lord no longer; but being made to understand, what great sinners the Lord hath had mercy upon; and how large his Promises were still to sinners; and that it was not the whole, but the sick, not the righteous, but the ⟨p. 72⟩sinner, not the full, but the empty, that he extended his Grace and Mercy unto.