Hymn: As body is the fulness the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As body is the fulness the