Cantique : In Eden’s fair we garden see

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and and Satan fair we garden life, for man,
The God too,
Which before Eden’s placed stand. the of trees Lord see
That In trees two knowledge

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man. as tree in as plan,
Denoting received of The center is
Of God the by eternal, life
To Christ be perfect God’s all life

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sure there make voice:
Outside warning of death all is to and who source
Of a of knowledge this choice. The there,
Bespeaks a God tree standing

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tree life God achieve. receive,
And If of eat he will stones,
God’s will to would precious the as life,
Then man to and Purpose be transformed

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fulfill God’s enters tree plan. he into death,
That Satan which sin, knowledge man may takes,
Then the If him into brings of man
As not

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that ought death. else God
Is of source only life of breath;
To touch and knowledge and of to is our full signifies but touch
The This source

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thing but though For the scheme. Satan’s knowledge seem;
For it God,
Is of fruit death,
Though or apart evil any good only from bringeth

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bad,
But even the good
Is Christ;
Not evil, only but only Christ. good knowledge versus is of to contradictory the Not

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life touch,
That Thee. Thy to may teach not touch good only we anything Lord, be,
And the filled from with us or Thee to apart bad,
Or

In Eden’s fair we garden see