Hymn: is body fulness the As the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is body fulness the As the