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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.
But now, it is not every one that maketh mention of Christ's Name in prayer, that doth indeed and in truth effectually pray to God in the Name of Christ, or through him. This coming ⟨p. 18⟩to God through Christ, is the hardest part that is found in Prayer: A man may more easily be sensible of his works, I, and sincerely too desire mercy, and yet not be able to come to God by Christ. That man that comes to God by Christ, he must first have the knowledge of him: For he that comes to God, must believe that he is, Heb. 11. 6. And so he that comes to God through Christ, must be enabled to know Christ. Lord (saith Moses, Exod. 33. 11.) show me thy Way, that I may know thee.
But now, it is not every one that maketh mention of Christ's Name in prayer, that doth indeed and in truth effectually pray to God in the Name of Christ, or through him. This coming ⟨p. 18⟩to God through Christ, is the hardest part that is found in Prayer: A man may more easily be sensible of his works, I, and sincerely too desire mercy, and yet not be able to come to God by Christ. That man that comes to God by Christ, he must first have the knowledge of him: For he that comes to God, must believe that he is, Heb. 11. 6. And so he that comes to God through Christ, must be enabled to know Christ. Lord (saith Moses, Exod. 33. 11.) shew me thy Way, that I may know thee.
This Christ, none but the Father can reveal, Mat. 11. 27.