A30158:274
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.
Fifthly.
The last thing that hindereth Prayer, is, The Form of it without the Power. It is an easy thing for men to be very hot for such things, as Forms of Prayer, as they are written in a Book, but yet they are altogether forgetful to enquire with themselves, whether they have the Spirit and Power of Prayer. These men they are like a painted man, and their Prayers are like a false voice; they in person appear as Hypocrites, and their Prayers are an Abomination, Prov. 28. 9. When they say they have been pouring out their souls to God, he saith, they have been howling like dogs, Hos. 7. 14.
The last thing that hindreth Prayer, is, The Form of it without the Power. It is an easie thing for men to be very hot for such things, as Forms of Prayer, as they are written in a Book, but yet they are altogether forgetful to enquire with themselves, whether they have the Spirit and Power of Prayer. These men they are like a painted man, and their Prayers are like a false voice; they in person appear as Hypocrites, and their Prayers are an Abomination, Prov. 28. 9. VVhen they say they have been pouring out their souls to God, he saith, they have been howling like dogs, Hos. 7. 14.