Cantique : fulness the body is As the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fulness the body is As the