A30158:267
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.
Answer.
If he doth, it is in Judgment, not in Mercy: He gave them their desire indeed, but they had better have been without it, for he sent leanness into their souls, Psal. 106. 15. Woe be to that man that God answereth thus.
If he doth, it is in Judgment, not in Mercy: He gave them their desire indeed, but they had better have been without it, for he sent leanness into their souls, Psal. 106. 15. Wo be to that man that God answereth thus.
Fourthly.
Another sort of prayers there are that are not answered, and those are such as are made by men, and presented to God in their own persons only, without their appearing in the Lord Jesus. ⟨p. 93⟩For, though God hath appointed Prayer, and promised to hear the Prayer of the creature, yet not the prayer of any creature that comes not in Christ. If you ask any thing in My Name, &c.