But such things must be done in hypocrisy, as also the Pharisee's
was.

"The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself."

And in that it is said he prayed with himself, it may signify, that
he went in his prayer no further than his sense and reason, feeling
and carnal apprehensions went. True Christian prayer ofttimes leaves
sense and reason, feeling and carnal apprehensions, behind it; and it
goeth forth with faith, hope, and desires to know what at present we
are ignorant of, and that unto which our sense, feeling, reason, &c.,
are strangers. The apostle indeed doth say, "I will pray with the
understanding;" 1 Cor. xiv. 15; but then it must be taken for an
understanding spiritually enlightened. I say, it must be so
understood, because the natural understanding, as such, receiveth not
the things of God, therefore cannot pray for them; for they to such
are foolish things; 1 Cor. ii. 14.

Now, a spiritually enlightened understanding may be officious in
prayer these ways -

1. As it has received conviction of the truth of the being of the
Spirit of God; for to receive conviction of the truth and being of
such things, comes from the Spirit of God, not from the law, sense,
or reason; 1 Cor. ii. 10-12. Now the understanding having, by the
Holy Ghost, received conviction of the truth of things, draweth out
the heart to cry in prayer to God for them. Therefore he saith, he
would pray with the understanding.

2. The spiritually enlightened understanding hath also received, by