Cantique : fulness the body is As the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fulness the body is As the