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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.
Poor heart! thou criest out that God will not regard thee, thou dost not find that thou art a friend to him but rather an enemy in thine heart by wicked works, Col. 1. 21. and thou ar• as though thou didst hear the Lord saying to thee, Trouble me not, I cannot ⟨p. 101⟩give unto thee; as he in the parable; Yet I say, continue knocking, crying, moaning and bewailing thy self: I tell thee, though he will not arise and give thee, because thou art his friend; yet because of thy importunity he will arise and give thee as many as thou needest.
Poor heart! thou cryest out that God will not regard thee, thou dosnot find that thou art a friend to him but rather an enemy in thine heart by wicked works, Col. 1. 21. and thou ar• as though thou didst hear the Lord saying to thee, Trouble me not, I cannot ⟨p. 101⟩give unto thee; as he in the parable; Yet I say, continue knocking, crying, moaning and bewailing thy self: I tell thee, though he will not arise and give thee, because thou art his friend; yet because of thy importunity he will arise and give thee as many as thou needest.
The same in effect you have discovered, Luke 18. in the parable of the unjust Judge, and the poor Widow; her importunity prevailed with him.