A30158:22
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 1: I. What Prayer is.
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.
In this Description are these seven things.
1. It is a sincere, 2. A sensible, 3. An affectionate pouring out of the soul to God through Christ, 4. By the strength or assistance of the Spirit, 5. For such things as God hath promised, or, according to his Word, 6. For the good of the Church, 7. With submission in Faith to the Will of God.
For the First of these, It is a sincere pouring out of the soul to God.
Sincerity is such a Grace as runs through all the Graces of God in us, and through all the actings of a Christian, and hath the sway in them too, or else their actings are not any thing ⟨p. 6⟩regarded of God, and so of & in Prayer, of which particularly David speaketh, when he mentioneth Prayer, Psal. 66. 17, 18. I cried unto the Lord with my mouth, & he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear my prayer,