A30158:282
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.
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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, (Luke 8. 9.) and if thou art sensible of thy senselessness, pray the Lord to make thee sensible of what-ever thou findest thine heart senseless of. This was the usual practice of the holy men of God; Lord make me to know mine ⟨p. 96⟩end, saith David, Psal. 39. 4. Lord, open to us this Parable, said the Disciples, Luke 8. 9.
There is a sense of senslesness, according to thy sense then, that thou hast of the need of any thing, so pray, (