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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.
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.
It is not pleasant for me to dwell on this; the Lord in mercy turn the hearts of the people to seek more after the Spirit of Prayer; and in the strength of that, to pour out their souls before the Lord.
Only let me say, It is a sad sign, that that, which is one of the most eminent parts of the pretended Worship of God, is Antichristian; when it hath nothing but Tradition of men, ⟨p. 115⟩and the strength of Persecution to uphold, or plead for it.