Cantique : has to The come Son sow God of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

has to The come Son sow God of