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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.
And if I should say, That men that do these things aforesaid, do advance a Form of Prayer of other mens making, above the Spirit of Prayer, it would not take long time to prove it.
For, he that advanceth the Book of Common-Prayer, above the Spirit of Prayer, he doth advance a Form of mens making above it.
But this do all those who banish, or desire to banish them that pray with the Spirit of Prayer, while they hug and embrace them that pray by that Form only, and that because they do it.
But this do all those who banish, or desire to banish them that pray with the Spirit of Prayer, while they hug and imbrace them that pray by that Form onely, and that because they do it.
Therefore they love and advance the Form of their own, or others inventing, before the Spirit of Prayer, which is God's special and gracious Appointment.