Cantique : As the the is body fulness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the the is body fulness