What Prayer Is - Puritan John Bunyan #shorts #christianshorts #prayers #pray #praying #puritans #God

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I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the Understanding also: or a discourse touching prayer from 1 Corinthians 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.

But, we know not what we should pray for as we ought; only the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, Romans 8:26 - Summary by Adapted from Title Page

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John Bunyan - (1628-1688), Puritan author

John Bunyan had very little schooling. He followed his father in the tinker's trade, and he served in the parliamentary army from1644 to 1647. Bunyan married in 1649 and lived in Elstow until 1655, when his wife died. He then moved to Bedford, and married again in 1659. John Bunyan was received into the Baptist church in Bedford by immersion in 1653.

In 1655, Bunyan became a deacon and began preaching, with marked success from the start. In 1658 he was indicted for preaching without a license. The authorities were fairly tolerant of him for a while, and he did not suffer imprisonment until November of 1660, when he was taken to the county jail in Silver Street, Bedford, and there confined (with the exception of a few weeks in 1666) for 12 years until January 1672. Bunyan afterward became pastor of the Bedford church. In March of 1675 he was again imprisoned for preaching publicly without a license, this time being held in the Bedford town jail. In just six months this time he was freed, (no doubt the authorities were growing weary of