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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.
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.
Secondly As such sudden temptations should not stop thee from Prayer and pouring out thy soul to God; so neither should thine own hearts corruption hinder thee.
It may be thou mayest find in thee all those things before-mentioned, and that they will be endeavouring to put forth themselves in thy praying to him: thy business then is to judge them, to pray against them, and to lay thy self so much the more at the foot of God, in a sense of thy own vileness, and rather make an argument from thy vileness and corruption of heart, to plead with God for justifying and sanctifying grace, than an argument of discouragement and despair.
It may be thou mayest find in thee all those things before-mentioned, and that they will be endeavouring to put forth themselves in thy praying to him: thy business then is to judge them, to pray against them, and to lay thy self so much the more at the foot of God, in a sence of thy own viseness, and rather make an argument from thy vileness and corruption of heart, to plead with God for justifying and sanctifying grace, than an argument of discouragement and dispair.