Old Wisdom

What it is to pray with the Spirit (Part 2 of 4).

by John Bunyan, modernized with HCSB SECOND. I will pray with the Spirit. Now to pray with the Spirit—for that is the praying man, and none else, in order to be accepted of God—it is for a man, as we have said, sincerely and sensibly, with affection, to come to God through Christ, and so on.  That sincere, sensible, and…

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Old Wisdom

What is Prayer (Part 1 of 4)

John Bunyan ~ modernized, with Scripture quotes from the HCSB. I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. – 1 Corinthians 14:15 PRAYER is an ORDINANCE [law] of God, to be used both in public and private.  It is such an ordinance that it brings those with the spirit of supplication into great familiarity…

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Old Wisdom

Bunyan on the Lord’s Day

I recently stumbled across John Bunyan’s little booklet, “Questions About the Nature and perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath,” a fascinating insight into Bunyan’s views on Covenant Theology and the continuation (or not) of the Mosaic Law. The booklet is written with the purpose of refuting the “Seventh-Day Baptists”—Baptists who had apparently taken to the belief that it was necessary to…

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