Cantique : is the body the As fulness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is the body the As fulness