A30158:302
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.
And verily, mine own experience tells me, that there is nothing that doth more prevail with God, than importunity.
Is it not so with you in respect of your beggars that come to your door? though you have no heart to give them any thing at their first asking, yet, if they follow you, bemoaning themselves, and will take no nay without an alms, you will give them; for their continual begging overcometh you.
Are there bowels in you that are wicked, and will they be wrought upon by an importuning beggar? Go ⟨p. 102⟩thou and do the like, Luke 11. 11.
It is a prevailing motive, and that by good experience; He will arise and give thee as many as thou needest.