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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
I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding… › Part 1: I. What Prayer is.
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.
Again, It is a pouring out of the heart or soul to God. This showeth also the Excellency of the Spirit of prayer: it is the great God to which it retires; When shall I come and appear before God? ⟨p. 16⟩And it argueth, that the Soul that thus prayeth indeed, sees an emptiness in all things under heaven; That in God alone there is rest and satisfaction for the Soul. Now she that is a Widow, and desolate, trusteth in God, 1 Tim. 5. 5. So saith David, In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion; deliver me in thy Righteousness, and cause me to escape; incline thine ear to me, and save me: be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: For thou art my rock and my fortress; deliver me, O God, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man: For thou art my hope, O Lord my God, thou art my trust from my mouth. Many in a wording way, speak of God, but right Prayer makes God his hope, stay, and all. Right Prayer sees nothing substantial, & worth the looking after, but God: And that (as I said before) it doth in a sincere, sensible, and affectionate way.
Again, It is a pouring out of the heart or soul to God. This sheweth also the Excellency of the Spirit of prayer: it is the great God to which it retires; When shall I come and appear before God? ⟨p. 16⟩And it argueth, that the Soul that thus prayeth indeed, sees an emptiness in all things under heaven; That in God alone there is rest and satisfaction for the Soul. Now she that is a Widow, and desolate, trusteth in God, 1 Tim. 5. 5. So saith David, In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion; deliver me in thy Righteousness, and cause me to escape; incline thine ear to me, and save me: be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: For thou art my rock and my fortress; deliver me, O God, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man: For thou art my hope, O Lord my God, thou art my trust from my mouth. Many in a wording way, speak of God, but right Prayer makes God his hope, stay, and all. Right Prayer sees nothing substantial, & worth the looking after, but God: And that (as I said before) it doth in a sincere, sensible, and affectionate way.