own must not be taken God’s Word

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

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