God’s taken must not be own Word

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

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