Hymn: As is the fulness the body

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

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

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

8

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

9

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

As is the fulness the body