I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also,…

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.

Take heed therefore of such false conclusions and groundless discouragements; And though such persuasions do come in upon thy spirit, be so ⟨p. 98⟩far from being discouraged by them, that thou use them to put thee upon further sincerity and restlessness of spirit in thy approaching to God.

Take heed therefore of such false conclusions and groundless discouragements; And though such perswasions do come in upon thy spirit, be so ⟨p. 98⟩far from being discouraged by them, that thou use them to put thee upon further sincerity and restlesness of spirit in thy approaching to God.