I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also,…

Oh how far short are those people of being sensible of this, who count it enough to teach themselves and children, to say the Lords Prayer, the Creed, with other sayings; when as Gods knows they are senseless of themselves, their misery, or what it is to be brought to God through Christ!

Oh how far short are those people of being sensible of this, who count it enough to teach themselves and children, to say the Lords Prayer, the Creed, with other sayings; when as Gods knows they are senceless of themselves, their misery, or what it is to be brought to God through Christ!

Ah poor souls! study your misery, and cry to God to show you your confused blindness and ignorance, before you be to rife in calling God your Father, or learning your children either so to say. And know, that to say, God is your Father, in a way of prayer, ⟨p. 43⟩or conference, without an experiment of the work of grace on your souls, it is to say, you are Jews, and are not, and so to lie.

Ah poor souls! study your misery, and cry to God to shew you your confused blindness and ignorance, before you be to rife in calling God your Father, or learning your children either so to say. And know, that to say, God is your Father, in a way of prayer, ⟨p. 43⟩or conference, without an experiment of the work of grace on your souls, it is to say, you are Jews, and are not, and so to lie.

You say, Our Father, God saith you blaspheme. You say, you are Jews, that is, true Christians: God saith, you lie. Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say, they are Jews, and are not, but do lie. And I know the blasphemy of them that say, they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan,