It was a garden in the primal age
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It was a garden in the primal age, But at the end it is a city square; Creation’s center in the garden was, God’s building issues in the city fair. |
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Both in the garden and the city fair A river and the tree of life are seen, Christ typifying as the life supply, The Spirit showing as the living stream. |
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Both in the garden and the city bright Three kinds of precious substances are found; There are the gold, the pearls, and precious stones Which for the building work of God abound. |
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But in the garden all these precious things Are just materials lying in the earth, Yet in the city all are builded up And form that dwelling of transcendent worth. |
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Man in the garden of the clay was formed, In nature as the Lord created him; The tree of life was then without the man, Not having yet become his life within. |
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But in the city glorious the tree Within the corporate “man” doth grow, thereby Revealing Christ Himself as life divine Being to man his inward life supply. |
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’Tis for the city man is wrought upon, Therefore regenerated and transformed To purest gold, to pearls and precious stones, As Christ’s own Body, to Himself conformed. |
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Within the garden also was a bride, Who was to Adam as his counterpart; Lastly, the city is itself the bride As Christ’s own fulness, precious to His heart. |
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The city is God’s building work replete, A composition of the justified; A habitation it affords to God And is to Christ His own beloved bride. |
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’Tis God’s expression, ultimate and full, Corporate and universal, marvelous; God’s glory it completely manifests, And is Christ’s counterpart most glorious. |
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from the garden in genesis to the garden in revelation is the tree of life for our life & supply. let's eat from this tree of life to become the new jerusalem. amen.