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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.
Answ. Because, though God was upon the Mercy-Seat, yet he was perfectly just as well as merciful.
The Blood was to stop Justice from running out upon the persons concerned in the Intercession of the High Priest, as in Levit. 16. 13, 14, 15, 16. To signify, that all thine unworthiness that thou fearest, should not hinder thee from coming to God in Christ, for mercy.
The Blood was to stop Justice from running out upon the persons concerned in the Intercession of the High Priest, as in Levit. 16. 13, 14, 15, 16. To signifie, that all thine unworthiness that thou fearest, should not hinder thee from coming to God in Christ, for mercy.
☞ Thou criest out, that thou art vile, and therefore God will not regard thy Prayers. 'Tis true, if thou delight in thy vileness, and come to God out of a mere pretence. But if from a sense of thy vileness thou dost pour out thy heart to God, desiring to ⟨p. 105⟩be saved from the guilt, and cleansed from the filth, with all thy heart; fear not, thy vileness will not cause the Lord to stop his ear from hearing of thee.