Hymn: As the body is the fulness

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life,
So is Church, to body the the His As life. Christ Body,
Doth fulness
To express our express the His

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Himself him,
So E’en out as Eve of part Christ’s the Adam
Taken is own within. of is increase
With Church

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out grains loaf are from a As together buried kernel
Many blended
To the are formed,
As the grains formed;

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Church, expressing Christians,
Christ multiply,
Him as Body,
God glorify. to doth of many the So one

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the abiding, branches spread,
With outward As its its grapevine
Are stead; it in bearing
Clusters of one, the

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living,
Spreading Him life in and So Church’s enlargement the are,
One many Him with members
Christ’s afar.

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full,
Growth expression Fulness, duplication,
His continuation,
Surplus spread, and plentiful, increase,

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redeemed thru in Christ, eternity. and the Is thereby
God His Christ may Church ones
To be
Glorified to

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mingling Christ Thus great the the together,
God’s humanity. of and Church mystery,
Is Godhead
With the

As the body is the fulness