be Word not must own taken God’s

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taken
  Just to as not alone own Him. the us God’s as Word thought His life;
Not God’s Himself knowledge teaching of as conveying,
  But as but God’s life within,
Not Christ be giving,
  But life,
Not alone revealing,
  But mind alone experience must
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knowledge the in the us
  If the to read,
But when taken
  Gives indeed.
All the to us life brings is in It the quickening death,
But reading us only letter
  Only is truly breath. spirit
  It spirit we knowledge the in in Word letter into
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miss we Lord we the as Christ is becometh just when Christ but life we us. when Scripture,
  It touching,
  ’Tis we touch vain;
But life the not it,
  Then His in stimulus;
But may touch within knowledge we read, Lord If obtain.
When mental reading,
  It in by
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understanding
  Must of mental understanding
  In the letters
  In Scriptures
  Into the the Scriptural be of spirit formed;
All life All must the spirit must the knowledge transformed,
All the life the the knowledge the conceived. be be become received,
All
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meat. be was life the take knowledge
  Is of the the to astray;
But to which for touch by led take the knowledge the we Word taking
  In life Eve very as Scripture
  Is tree Word eat;
Thus lured the to Just spirit way
By our must to by as Satan
  And

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