Hymn: fulness the body the is As

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

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

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

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

5

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

6

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

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

8

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

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

fulness the body the is As