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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.
Secondly, Take heed that thine heart go to God as well as thy mouth; let not thy mouth go any further than thou strivest to draw thine heart along with it. David would lift his heart and soul to the Lord, and good reason: for so far as a man's mouth goeth along without his heart, so far it is but liplabour only; and though God calleth for, and accepteth the calves of the lips, yet the lips, without the heart, argueth not only senselessness, but our being without sense of our senselessness; and therefore if thou hast a mind to enlarge in Prayer before God, see that it be with thy heart.
Secondly, Take heed that thine heart go to God as well as thy mouth; let not thy mouth go any further than thou strivest to draw thine heart along with it. David would lift his heart and soul to the Lord, and good reason: for so far as a man's mouth goeth along without his heart, so far it is but liplabour only; and though God calleth for, and accepteth the calves of the lips, yet the lips, without the heart, argueth not only senslesness, but our being without sense of our senslesness; and therefore if thou hast a mind to enlarge in Prayer before God, see that it be with thy heart.
Thirdly, Take heed of affecting expressions, and so to please thy self with ⟨p. 97⟩the use of them, that thou forget not the Life of Prayer.
I shall conclude this Use with a Caution or two.