Cantique : the body the fulness is As

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the body the fulness is As