Cantique : has of Son come to sow God The

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

has of Son come to sow God The