A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…

This Gift and Ability, I affirm to be bestowed, and this Work by Virtue thereof to be wrought in us by the Holy Ghost in the Accomplishment of the Promise insisted on, ⟨p. 49⟩so crying Abba Father in them that do believe. And this is that which we are to given an account of, wherein we shall assert nothing but what the Scripture plainly goeth before us in, and what the experience of Believers duly exercised in Duties of Obedience, doth confirm. And in the Issue of our Endeavour, we shall leave it unto the Judgement of God and his Church, whether they are ecstatical, enthusiastical, unaccountable Raptures that we plead for, or a real Gracious Effect and Work of the Holy Spirit of God.

This Gift and Ability, I affirm to be bestowed, and this Work by Vertue thereof to be wrought in us by the Holy Ghost in the Accomplishment of the Promise insisted on, ⟨p. 49⟩so crying Abba Father in them that do believe. And this is that which we are to given an account of, wherein we shall assert nothing but what the Scripture plainly goeth before us in, and what the experience of Believers duly exercised in Duties of Obedience, doth confirm. And in the Issue of our Endeavour, we shall leave it unto the Judgement of God and his Church, whether they are ecstatical, enthusiastical, unaccountable Raptures that we plead for, or a real Gracious Effect and Work of the Holy Spirit of God.

The first thing we ascribe unto the Spirit herein is, that he supplieth and furnisheth the mind, with a due comprehension of the Matter of Prayer, or what ought, both in general, and as unto all our particular occasions, to be prayed for. Without this, I suppose it will be granted, that no man can pray as he ought. For how can any man pray, that knows not what to pray for? Where there is not a Comprehension hereof, the very nature and being of Prayer is destroyed. And herein the Testimony of the Apostle is express, Rom. 8. 26