Cantique : the is fulness As body the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the is fulness As body the