must be God’s own Word taken not

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

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