A30158:222
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. 4.
But Christ bids, Pray for the Spirit: This implieth, that men without the Spirit, may notwithstanding pray, and be heard: See Luke 11. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Answ. 1. The speech of Christ there is directed to his own, vers. 1.
2. Christ his telling of them, that God would give his holy Spirit to them that ask him, is to be understood of giving more of the holy Spirit; For still they are the Disciples spoken to, which had a measure of the Spirit already; for he saith, When ye pray, say, Our Father, ver. 2. I say unto you, vers. 8. And, I say unto you, vers. 9. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him?