| 1 | Man is a being of three parts, |
| | The body, soul, and spirit too, |
| | Th’ eternal purpose to fulfill |
| | With God’s inheritance in view. |
| 2 | The body is the outward part |
| | That man a world-sense may possess; |
| | Thus he may touch the outward things |
| | And bodily himself express. |
| 3 | The soul within-the inward part- |
| | Is but the very self of man; |
| | The sense of self it gives to him |
| | To touch the psychic world of man. |
| 4 | The spirit is the inmost part |
| | With which the Lord he may receive; |
| | The sense of God it gives to man |
| | That he the spirit-world perceive. |
| 5 | Within the soul of man there are |
| | The mind, emotion, and the will; |
| | These are the functions for the man |
| | His human nature to fulfill. |
| 6 | Within the spirit of the man |
| | Are found the conscience, fellowship, |
| | And intuition, which thereby |
| | The man to worship God equip. |
| 7 | The man must exercise his soul |
| | To choose that God he may possess, |
| | And by his spirit God partake, |
| | And thru his body God express. |
| 8 | Man’s spirit has to be reborn |
| | With life divine to him conveyed; |
| | His soul must be transformed by God, |
| | His body like Christ’s body made. |
| 9 | ’Tis by these steps of work divine |
| | In each of man’s three separate parts |
| | That man is mingled with the Lord |
| | And His expression full imparts. |
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