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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.
USE I. A Word of Information.
For the first, to inform you, That as Prayer is the duty of every one of the Children of God, and carried on by the Spirit of Christ in the soul: So every one that doth but offer to take upon him to pray to the Lord, had need be very wary, and go about that work especially, with the Dread of God, as well as with hopes of the Mercy of God through Jesus Christ.
Prayer is an Ordinance of God, in which a man draws very near to God; and therefore it calleth for so much the more of the assistance of the Grace of God, to help a soul to pray, as becomes one that is in the presence of him.
It is a shame for a man to behave himself irreverently before a King but a sin to do so before God. And a ⟨p. 87⟩a King (if wise) is not pleased with an Oration made up with unseemly words and gestures; So God takes no pleasure in the sacrifice of fools, Eccles. 5. 1, 4.