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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 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.
The want of this made the Lord reject their prayers in Hos. 7. 14. where he saith, They have not cried unto me with their heart (that is, in sincerity) when they howled upon their beds. But for a pretence, for a show in hypocrisy, to be seen of men, and applauded for the same, they pray.
The want of this made the Lord reject their prayers in Hos. 7. 14. where he saith, They have not cryed unto me with their heart (that is, in sincerity) when they howled upon their beds. But for a pretence, for a shew in hypocrisie, to be seen of men, and applauded for the same, they pray.
Sincerity was that which Christ commended in Nathaniel, when he was under the fig-tree; Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. Probably this good man was pouring out of ⟨p. 7⟩his soul to God in Prayer under the figtree, and that in a sincere and unfeigned spirit before the Lord. The Prayer that hath this in it, as one of the principal ingredients, is the Prayer that God looks at. Thus, the Prayer of the Upright is his delight, Prov. 15. 8.
Sincerity was that which Christ commended in Nathaniel, when he was under the fig-tree; Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. Probably this good man was pouring out of ⟨p. 7⟩his soul to God in Prayer under the figtree, and that in a sincere and unfained spirit before the Lord. The Prayer that hath this in it, as one of the principal ingredients, is the Prayer that God looks at. Thus, the Prayer of the Upright is his delight, Prov. 15. 8.