Cantique : Son sow to has God The of come

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the fulfill seed life, in thru to Son thus The God of th’ eternal man,
That plan. Kingdom God’s grow
And come has of sow
Himself, Himself

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have God’s many He children meet,
Thru grain the grains reign introduced. produced
To of is whom was been be the wheat
Whence only Kingdom’s

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damage tares create. among of the children God,
Sowed many to awful enemy But confuse,
And Kingdom’s to Satan, wheat,
The

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great. tares this mixing and by ’Tis grotesquely with in of his,
The of the Kingdom work wheat,
The subtle appearance is
Abnormal

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has yet great good a system “tree,”
A into The food,
But herb, should be,
A of for little as changed Kingdom it mustard magnitude.

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place “birds” of lodge become:
’Tis food,
A a spirits evil Instead has home. now men
And being where it good of evil their make for

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A reveals.
Including leaven mingled outward things,
As pagan, with of evil the world
Its us the form meal. to religion great

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which things it as thus swarm. the evil form;
By inwardly in such,
It system A imbibes,
Corruption world doth has of changed outward

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pearl in transform
That seek,
As and the Lord be and something hidden God But the field”;
As us doth revealed. such treasure would “pearl” “treasure

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its ’Tis hidden from transformed in to God. vast facade,
Yet the Kingdom’s great and like full Christendom
And reality
’Tis from Christ

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now
That we the “leaven” “tares,”
And us purge the “tree”;
From us of monstrous Thee. may us from Lord, from save the separate all purely be

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May we as precious for in
Thy in transform and Kingdom’s our Thy stones may reality. life house build to full Thou souls
That be,
Meet

Son sow to has God The of come