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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
I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding… › Part 3 › Section › Answ.
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.
Secondly, As to that called a Form, I cannot think that Christ intended it as a stinted Form of Prayer.
First, Because he himself layeth it down diversly, as is to be seen, if you compare Matth. 6. with Luke 11. Whereas, if he intended it as a set form, it must not have been so laid down: for a set-form is so many words and no more.
First, Because he himself layeth it down diversly, as is to be seen, if you compare Matth. 6. with Luke 11. Whereas, if he intended it as a setform, it must not have been so laid down: for a set-form is so many words and no more.
Secondly, We do not find that the Apostles did ever observe it as such, ⟨p. 81⟩neither did they admonish others so to do: Search all their Epistles: Yet surely they, both for knowledge to discern, and faithfulness to practise, were as eminent as any He ever since in the World which would impose it.
Secondly, VVe do not find that the Apostles did ever observe it as such, ⟨p. 81⟩neither did they admonish others so to do: Search all their Epistles: Yet surely they, both for knowledge to discern, and faithfulness to practise, were as eminent as any He ever since in the World which would impose it.