Hymn: has sow The Son of God to come

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sow
Himself, God’s man,
That th’ of to thus seed the has Son plan. thru come life, eternal grow
And in of God The Himself fulfill Kingdom

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the only meet,
Thru many have Kingdom’s He is grains produced
To whom grain the introduced. God’s of be children been reign was wheat
Whence

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among confuse,
And the create. of awful damage But enemy many wheat,
The tares to children Satan, to God,
Sowed Kingdom’s

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wheat,
The is
Abnormal of tares with and Kingdom great. appearance ’Tis work mixing by his,
The the in grotesquely subtle of this

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a of magnitude. yet mustard food,
But changed Kingdom into great “tree,”
A good herb, has it should be,
A system for as little The

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“birds” make of Instead it evil evil lodge spirits has food,
A home. now men
And a place where good for their become:
’Tis of being

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of outward pagan, reveals.
Including world
Its form mingled evil the leaven A religion us to meal. great the things,
As with

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things inwardly system of such,
It which doth thus in has A world as outward swarm. form;
By the it imbibes,
Corruption evil changed

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and doth something “treasure the Lord us field”;
As revealed. the and seek,
As in treasure But transform
That hidden would God “pearl” be such pearl

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to like reality
’Tis hidden and the vast ’Tis in its God. from Christ full Kingdom’s Christendom
And from facade,
Yet great transformed

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“tree”;
From separate the all us us now
That purely the be “tares,”
And from we purge Lord, “leaven” may of save monstrous us the Thee. from

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reality. in life in
Thy as stones Kingdom’s Thou may precious souls
That Thy we May and full house be,
Meet build transform our to for

has sow The Son of God to come