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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.
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?
Hath God required these things at you hands? If he hath, shew 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?
Nay, further: It is not that part only of the Form, which is several Texts of Scripture, that we are commanded to say; but even all must be confessed as the Divine Worship of God, notwithstanding those absurdities contained therein, which because they are at large discovered by others, I omit the rehearsal of them.
Again, Though a man be willing to live never so peaceably; yet because he cannot for Conscience sake own that, for one of the most eminent parts of God's Worship, which he never commanded: therefore must that man be looked upon as factious, seditious, erroneous, heretical; a disparagement to the Church, a seducer of the people, and what not? Lord, what will be the fruit of these things! when for the Doctrine of God there is imposed (that is more than taught) the Traditions of men?