Cantique : As the is fulness the body

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the is fulness the body