Cantique : The to has Son come of God sow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The to has Son come of God sow