A30158:261
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.
1. They eye only their Auditory in their expressions.
2. They look for Commendations when they have done.
3. Their hearts either rise or fall according to their praise or enlargement.
4. The length of their Prayer pleaseth them; and that it might be long, they will vainly repeat things over and over, Matth. 6. 7. They study for enlargements, but look not from what heart they come. They look for returns, but it is the windy applause o• men; and therefore they love not to be in a chamber, but among company and if at any time conscience thrust them into their closet, yet hypocrisy ⟨p. 91⟩will cause them to be heard in the streets; and when their mouths have done going, their prayers are ended; for they wait not to hearken what the Lord will say,