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said, “thou art a member of His body; if thou

art of His body, then thou art full of the divine

nature.... Oh, if men could but enter into the

understanding of this privilege, how purely,

chastely, and holily would they live, and how

contemptible, when compared with the glory

within them,—that glory which the eye of

flesh cannot see,—would they deem all the

glory of this world.”—Ibid., b. 12, ch. 2.

There were some among Lefevre's students

who listened eagerly to his words, and who,

long after the teacher's voice should be

silenced, were to continue to declare the

truth. Such was William Farel. The son of

pious parents, and educated to accept with

implicit faith the teachings of the church, he

might, with the apostle Paul, have declared

concerning himself: “After the most straitest

sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.” Acts