A30158:263
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.
Thirdly.
A third sort of prayer that will not be accepted of God, it is, When either they pray for wrong things; or, if for right things, yet, that the thing prayed for, might be spent upon their lusts, and laid out to wrong ends: Some have not, because they ask not, saith James; and others ask and have not, because they ask amiss, that they may consume it upon their lusts, James 4. 2, 3, 4.
Ends contrary to God's Will, is a great Argument with God to frustrate the Petitions presented before him. Hence it is, that so many pray for this and that, and yet receive it not; God answereth them only with silence, they have their words for their labour, and that is all.
Ends contrary to God's Will, is a great Argument with God to frustrate the Petitions presented before him. Hence it is, that so many pray for this and that, and yet receive it not; God answereth them onely with silence, they have their words for their labour, and that is all.