"I said that the prayers in the Common Prayer Book were such as were made by other men, and not by the motions of the Holy Ghost, within our hearts; and as I said, the apostle saith, he will pray with the Spirit, and with the understanding; not with the Spirit and the Common Prayer Book."
— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for James Buckland
Date
1765
Metaphor
"I said that the prayers in the Common Prayer Book were such as were made by other men, and not by the motions of the Holy Ghost, within our hearts; and as I said, the apostle saith, he will pray with the Spirit, and with the understanding; not with the Spirit and the Common Prayer Book."
Metaphor in Context
Bun. I said that the prayers in the Common Prayer Book were such as were made by other men, and not by the motions of the Holy Ghost, within our hearts; and as I said, the apostle saith, he will pray with the Spirit, and with the understanding; not with the Spirit and the Common Prayer Book.
(p. 106 in Oxford ed.)
(p. 106 in Oxford ed.)
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Citation
Only 1 entry in the ESTC (1765).
A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel at Bedford, in November, 1660. ... Written by Himself, and Never Before Published. (London: Printed for James Buckland, 1765). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies, eds. John Stachniewski and Anita Pacheco (Oxford UP, 1998).
A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan, Minister of the Gospel at Bedford, in November, 1660. ... Written by Himself, and Never Before Published. (London: Printed for James Buckland, 1765). <Link to ECCO>
Reading Grace Abounding: With Other Spiritual Autobiographies, eds. John Stachniewski and Anita Pacheco (Oxford UP, 1998).
Date of Entry
09/03/2013
