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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.
I shall conclude this Use with a Caution or two.
First, Take heed thou do not throw off Prayer, through sudden persuasions that thou hast not the Spirit, neither prayest thereby.
First, Take heed thou do not throw off Prayer, through sudden perswasions that thou hast not the Spirit, neither prayest thereby.
It is the great work of the Devil to do his best, or rather worst, against the best prayers. He will flatter your false dissembling hypocrites, and feed them with a thousand fancies of well-doing, when their very duties of Prayer, and all other, stink in the nostrils of God; When he standeth at a poor Joshua's hand to resist him, (Isa. 66. 5. Zech. 3. 1.) that is, to persuade him, that neither his person nor performances are accepted of God.
It is the great work of the Devil to do his best, or rather worst, against the best prayers. He will flatter your false dissembling hypocrites, and feed them with a thousand fancies of well-doing, when their very duties of Prayer, and all other, stink in the nostrils of God; When he standeth at a poor Joshua's hand to resist him, (Isa. 66. 5. Zech. 3. 1.) that is, to perswade him, that neither his person nor performances are accepted of God.