must be own not taken God’s Word

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

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