Cantique : of God has come sow The to Son

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

of God has come sow The to Son