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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.
4. Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God through Christ, by the strength or assistance of the Spirit. For these things do so depend one upon another, that it is impossible that it should be Prayer without there be a joint concurrence of them: for though it be never so famous, yet without these things, it is only such Prayer as is rejected of God. For without a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart to God, it is but lip-labour; and if it be not through Christ, it falleth far short of ever sounding well in the ears of God. So also, if it be not in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, it is but like the Sons of Aaron, offering ⟨p. 21⟩with strange fire, Levit. 10. 1, 2. But I shall speak more to this under the second head; and therefore in the mean time, That which is not petitioned through the teaching and assistance of the Spirit, it is not possible that it should be according to the will of God, Rom. 8. 26, 27.
4. Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God through Christ, by the strength or assistance of the Spirit. For these things do so depend one upon another, that it is impossible that it should be Prayer without there be a joynt concurrence of them: for though it be never so famous, yet without these things, it is only such Prayer as is rejected of God. For without a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart to God, it is but lip-labour; and if it be not through Christ, it falleth far short of ever sounding well in the ears of God. So also, if it be not in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, it is but like the Sons of Aaron, offering ⟨p. 21⟩with strange fire, Levit. 10. 1, 2. But I shall speak more to this under the second head; and therefore in the mean time, That which is not petitioned through the teaching and assistance of the Spirit, it is not possible that it should be according to the will of God,