Hymn: As the body is the fulness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the body is the fulness