A30158:180
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.
Query 2.
Yea, but when I go into secret, and intend ⟨p. 74⟩to pour out my soul before God, I can scarce say any thing at all.
Answer.
Ah sweet soul! It is not thy words, that God so much regards, as that he will not mind thee, except thou comest before him with some eloquent Oration. His eye is on the brokenness of thine heart, and that it is, that makes the very bowels of the Lord run over, A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise, Psal. 51. 17.