Cantique : is the As fulness body the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is the As fulness body the