Cantique : As body the fulness the is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As body the fulness the is