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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.
3. There is yet another Encouragement to continue in Prayer with God, and that is this.
As there is a Mercy-Seat, from whence God is willing to commune with poor sinners; so there is also by this Mercy-seat, Jesus Christ who continually ⟨p. 104⟩besprinkleth it with his blood.
Hence it is called, The Blood of sprinkling, Heb. 12. 14.
When the High Priest under the Law was to go into the Holiest, where the Mercy-seat was, he might not go in without blood, Heb. 9. 7.