Cantique : the body As is fulness the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the body As is fulness the