Hymn: is the fulness As the body

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is the fulness As the body