A30158:332
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.
I tell thee, the ravens, the dogs, &c. shall rise up in judgement against thee, for they will according to their kind, make signs, and a noise for something to refresh them when they want it; but thou hast not the heart to ask for Heaven, though thou must eternally perish in Hell, if thou hast it not.
2. This rebukes you that make it your business to slight, mock at, and undervalue the Spirit, and praying by that.
What will you do, when God shall come to reckon for these things?
You count it high Treason to speak but a word against the King. Nay, you tremble at the thoughts of it; and yet in the mean time you will blaspheme the Spirit of the Lord.
Is God indeed to be dallied with, and will the end be pleasant unto you?