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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.
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.
Hath God required these things at you hands? If he hath, show us where. If not (as I am sure he hath not) Then what cursed presumption is it in any, Pope, Bishop, or other, to command that in the Worship of God which he hath not required?