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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.
Object. 2.
But if we do not use Forms of Prayer, how shall we teach our Children to pray?
Answ.
My judgement is, that men go the wrong way to learn their Children to pray, in going about so soon to learn them any set company of words, as is the common use of poor creatures to do.
For to me it seems to be a better way for people betimes to tell their Children what cursed creatures they are, and how they are under the wrath of God by reason of original and actual sin: also to tell them the nature of God's wrath, and the duration of the ⟨p. 78⟩misery; which if they conscientiously do, they would sooner learn their Children to pray than they do.