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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.
Secondly, And dost thou indeed say, Hallowed be thy Name, with thy heart? Dost thou study by all honest and lawful ways, to advance the Name, Holiness and Majesty of God? Doth thy heart and conversation agree with this passage? Dost thou strive to imitate Christ in all the works of Righteousness, which God doth command of thee, and prompt thee forwards to? It is so, if thou beest one that canst truly with God's allowance cry, Our Father.
Secondly, And dost thou indeed say, Hallowed be thy Name, with thy heart? Dost thou study by all honest and lawful wayes, to advance the Name, Holiness and Majesty of God? Doth thy heart and conversation agree with this passage? Dost thou strive to imitate Christ in all the works of Righteousness, which God doth command of thee, and prompt thee forwards to? It is so, if thou beest one that canst truly with God's allowance cry, Our Father.
Or, is it not the least of thy thoughts all the day? and dost thou not clearly make it appear that thou art a cursed Hypocrite, by condemning that with thy daily practice, which thou pretendest in thy praying with thy dissembling tongue?
Thirdly, Wouldest thou have the Kingdom of God come indeed, and also his Will to be done in Earth as it is in Heaven? Nay, notwithstanding, thou, according to the form, sayest, Thy Kingdom come; yet, would it not make thee ready to run mad, to hear the Trumpet sound, to see the Dead arise, and thy self just now to go and appear before God, to reckon for all the deeds thou hast done in the Body? Nay, are not the very thoughts of it altogether displeasing to thee? And if God's VVill should be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, must it not be thy ruin?
Thirdly, Wouldest thou have the Kingdom of God come indeed, and also his Will to be done in Earth as it is in Heaven? Nay, notwithstanding, thou, according to the form, sayest, Thy Kingdom come; yet, would it not make thee ready to run mad, to hear the Trumpet sound, to see the Dead arise, and thy self just now to go and appear before God, to reckon for all the deeds thou hast done in the Body? Nay, are not the very thoughts of it altogether displeasing to thee? And if God's VVill should be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, must it not be thy ruine?