A30158:279
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.
Object.
But I have a sense of nothing; Then, by your Argument, I must not pray at all.
But I have a sence of nothing; Then, by your Argument, I must not pray at all.
Answer.
First, If thou findest thy self senseless in some sad measure, yet thou canst not complain of that senselessness, but by being sensible.
First, If thou findest thy self sensless in some sad measure, yet thou canst not complain of that senslesness, but by being sensible.
There is a sense of senselessness, according to thy sense then, that thou hast of the need of any thing, so pray, (