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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.
But here now, the wise men of our days are so well skilled, as that they have both the Manner and Matter of their Prayers at their fingers ends; setting such a Prayer for such a day, and that twenty years before it comes. One for Christmas, another for Easter, and six days after that. They have also bounded how many syllables must be said in every one of them at their public Exercises. For each Saints day also, they have them ready for the generations yet unborn to say. They can tell you also, when you shall kneel, when you should stand, when you should abide in your seats, when you should go up into the Chancel, and what you should do when you come ⟨p. 32⟩there. All which the Apostles came short of, as not being able to compose so profound a manner. And that for this reason included in this Scripture, because the fear of God tied them to pray as they ought.
But here now, the wise men of our dayes are so well skill'd, as that they have both the Manner and Matter of their Prayers at their fingers ends; setting such a Prayer for such a day, and that twenty years before it comes. One for Christmass, another for Easter, and six dayes after that. They have also bounded how many syllables must be said in every one of them at their publick Exercises. For each Saints day also, they have them ready for the generations yet unborn to say. They can tell you also, when you shall kneel, when you should stand, when you should abide in your seats, when you should go up into the Chancel, and what you should do when you come ⟨p. 32⟩there. All which the Apostles came short of, as not being able to compose so profound a manner. And that for this reason included in this Scripture, because the fear of God tyed them to pray as they ought.