Hymn: the fulness is As the body

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the fulness is As the body