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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.
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?
Did God send his holy Spirit into the hearts of his People to that end, that you should taunt at it? is this to serve God? And doth this demonstrate the Reformation of your Church? Nay, is it not the mark of implacable Reprobates?
O fearful! can you not be content to be damned for your sins against the Law, but you must sin against the Holy Ghost?
Must the holy, harmless, and undefiled Spirit of Grace; the nature of God, the promise of Christ, the comforter of his Children; that without which, no man can do any service acceptable to the Father; Must this, I say, be the burden of your Song, to taunt, deride, and mock at?