A30158:196
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.
Object. 1.
But though you have seemed to speak against any other way of praying but by the Spirit, yet here you your self can give direction how to pray.
Answ.
We ought to prompt one another forward to Prayer, though we ought not to make for each other Forms of Prayer.
To exhort to pray with Christian direction is one thing, and to make stinted Forms for the tying up of the Spirit of God to them, is another thing.
To exhort to pray with Christian direction is one thing, and to make stinted Formes for the tying up of the Spirit of God to them, is another thing.