Cantique : has God come to sow of Son The

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

has God come to sow of Son The