A30158:212
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. 3.
But we find that the Disciples desired that Christ would teach them to pray, as John also taught his Disciples; and, ⟨p. 80⟩that thereupon he taught them that form, called the Lord's Prayer.
Answ.
First, To be taught by Christ, is that which not only they, but we desire; and seeing he is not here in his person to teach us, the Lord teach us by his Word and Spirit; for the Spirit is it which he hath said he would send to supply in his room when he went away, as it is, John 14. 16. and 16. 7.
Secondly, As to that called a Form, I cannot think that Christ intended it as a stinted Form of Prayer.