Hymn: is body the fulness As the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is body the fulness As the