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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.
It is a prevailing motive, and that by good experience; He will arise and give thee as many as thou needest.
2. Another Encouragement for a poor trembling convinced soul, is, To consider the place, throne, or seat, on which the great God hath placed himself to hear the petitions and prayers of poor creatures; and that is a Throne of Grace, Heb. 4. 16. The Mercy-Seat, Exod. 25. 22. Which signifieth, that in the days of the Gospel God hath taken up his Seat, his abiding-place, in mercy and forgiveness; and from thence he doth intend to hear the sinner, and to commune with him, as he saith, Exod. 25. 22. (speaking before of the Mercy-Seat) And there will I meet with thee. Mark; It is upon the Mercy-Seat; There will I meet with thee, and there will I commune with thee, from above the Mercy-seat.
2. Another Encouragement for a poor trembling convinced soul, is, To consider the place, throne, or seat, on which the great God hath placed himself to hear the petitions and prayers of poor creatures; and that is a Throne of Grace, Heb. 4. 16. The Mercy-Seat, Exod. 25. 22. Which signifieth, that in the dayes of the Gospel God hath taken up his Seat, his abiding-place, in mercy and forgiveness; and from thence he doth intend to hear the sinner, and to commune with him, as he saith, Exod. 25. 22. (speaking before of the Mercy-Seat) And there will I meet with thee. Mark; It is upon the Mercy-Seat; There will I meet with thee, and there will I commune with thee, from above the Mercy-seat.