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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.
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.
If you desire the clearing of the Minor, look into the Goals in England, and into the Alehouses of the same: ⟨p. 114⟩and I believe, you will find those that plead for the Spirit of Prayer in the Goal, and them that look after the Form of mens Inventions only, in the Alehouse.
It is evident also, by the silencing of God's dear Ministers, though never so powerfully enabled by the Spirit of Prayer; if they, in conscience, cannot admit of that Form of Common-Prayer.
If this be not an exalting the Common-Prayer-Book above either praying by the Spirit, or preaching the Word, I have taken my mark amiss.