Hymn: is body fulness As the the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is body fulness As the the