Cantique : shall not Man alone by bread live

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

shall not Man alone by bread live