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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.
When men pray for a show to be heard, and thought some body in Religion, and the like.
When men pray for a shew to be heard, and thought some body in Religion, and the like.
These prayers also fall far short of God's approbation, and are never like to be answered, in reference unto eternal life.
There are two sorts of men that pray to this end.
1. Your Trencher-Chaplains, that thrust themselves into great mens Families, pretending the Worship of God, when in truth the great business is their own Bellies: which were notably painted out by Ahab's Prophets, 1 King. 18. 19. and also Nebuchadnezzars wise men, Dan. 2. who though they pretended great devotion, yet their lusts and their bellies were the great things aimed at by them in all their pieces of devotion.