Cantique : the As fulness body the is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the As fulness body the is