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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. As this is the doom of those who do openly blaspheme the holy Ghost, in a way of disdain and reproach to its office and service: So also it is sad for you, who resist this Spirit of Prayer, by a Form of man's inventing. A very juggle of the Devil, that the Traditions of men should be of better esteem, and more to be owned, than the Spirit of Prayer.
What is this less than that accursed Abomination of Jeroboam, which kept many from going to Jerusalem, the place and way of God's Appointment to worship, 1 Kings 12. 26, &c. And by that means brought such displeasure from God upon them, as to this day is not appeased?
One would think that God's Judgements of old upon the Hypocrites of that day, should make them that have heard of such things, take heed and fear to do so.
Yet the Doctors of our day are so far from taking of warning by the punishment of others, that they do most desperately rush into the same transgression (viz.) To set up an Institution of man, neither commanded nor commended of God: and whosoever will not obey herein, they must be driven either out of the Land, or the World.