Praying with the Spirit and with Understanding Also (first published in 1662). In it he brilliantly describes healthy prayer as: “a sincere, sensible [fervent], affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to his Word, for the good of the church, with submission in faith to the will of God.” That is the kind of prayer we find here and elsewhere in Paul’s letters. Notice that he