Cantique : As the fulness the body is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the fulness the body is