Cantique : As the fulness body is the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the fulness body is the