Cantique : is As body the fulness the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is As body the fulness the