Hymn: fulness is the body As the

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

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

3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fulness is the body As the