Cantique : is fulness As the the body

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is fulness As the the body