taken must not Word God’s be own

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

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