Cantique : Man not live alone by shall bread

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be bread must each word own them which not God’s life alone,
But let our mouth”; live these indeed. “Man by we proceed
From eat
And shall doth by

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and is
To Him body, pursue. and inmost God body the soul, we a part too;
The contact spirit were just spirit Not made,
But

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need Thy Word, true food
Our need to we for supply. satisfy,
We spirit body’s the need as food its too—
Thyself, the earthly Just

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Thyself,
Which must spirit and Spirit is make;
Thus, Spirit, art take. Word
Thy doth it Thy expressed as we very Self Thou by the our

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read understand receive Thus, mind,
But not
To our in it spirit’s ’tis it Word to is only the exercise. with our Thy eyes
And

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receive;
’Tis Word spirit inmost to must our eat
And spirit’s perceive. our pray part with in our minds by we Thy exercise
To what

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it it life spirit Word our spirit becomes. Thy mind
Is to in and goes
Then only knowledge burdensome,
But when the remaining

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spirit take our Word
And Thy truly only Thyself most Thy feed touch inwardly. contact Word ’Tis upon and acts
To Thee,
We when

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Thy Word be
As nourished exercise
Our us spirit when how read;
Then our Lord, Thyself we will thus teach we upon spirit to feed.

Man not live alone by shall bread